fermium

How To Use fermium In A Sentence

• All isotopes of fermium are radioactive, with fermium-257 having the longest half life, 20.1 hours.
• The Dubna group had made fermium and rutherfordium this way in the 1970s.
• The transfermium elements are those elements with atomic numbers greater than 100, the atomic number for fermium.
• They were named after two of the century's most creative physicists: einsteinium and fermium.
• Scientists have for the first time literally shed light on properties of the radioactive element fermium - a metal discovered some 50 years ago.
• Made in the 1952 detonation of the first thermonuclear bomb, the element fermium has since sat in a corner of the periodic table where few tools of chemistry reach.
• Besides probing fermium further, the team plans next to study element number 101, mendelevium, Backe says.
• The first glimpse at 112 lasted for only a third of a millisecond, until it decayed first into element 110 (darmstaditium) and then into four different short-lived elements until researchers lost its trail at element 110 (fermium). Undefined