Nobelium

Definition: Nobelium

Nobelium

Noun

1. A radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding curium with carbon ions; 7 isotopes are known.

Specialty Definitions: Nobelium

Domain	Definitions
Chemistry	Chemical element:atomic number 102. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	Nobelium. A man-made radioactive element of the actinide metal series. It has the atomic symbol No, atomic number 102, and atomic weight 259. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Nobelium

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Nobelium is a chemical element in the periodic table with the symbol No and atom number 102.

History

Nobelium was unambiguiously discovered and identified in April 1958 at UC Berkeley by A. Ghiorso, T. Sikkeland, J.R. Walton, and G.T. Seaborg, who used a new double-recoil technique. A heavy-ion linear accelerator (HILAC) was used to bombard a thin target of curium (95% 244Cm and 4.5% 246Cm) with 12C ions to produce 102No according to the 246Cm(12C, 4n) reaction. It is named after Alfred Nobel, the discoverer of dynamite and namesake of the Nobel Prize.

In 1957 workers in the United States, Britain, and Sweden announced the discovery of an isotope of element 102 with a 10-minute half-life at 8.5 MeV, as a result of bombarding 244Cm with 13C nuclei. On the basis of this experiment, the name nobelium was assigned and accepted by the Commission on Atomic Weights of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

The acceptance of the name was premature because both Russian and American efforts now completely rule out the possibility of any isotope of Element 102 having a half-life of 10 min in the vicinity of 8.5 MeV. Early work in 1957 on the search for this element, in Russia at the Kurchatov Institute, was marred by the assignment of 8.9 +/- 0.4 MeV alpha radiation with a half-life of 2 to 40 sec, which was too indefinite to support discovery claims.

Confirmatory experiments at Berkeley in 1966 have shown the existence of 254-102 with a 55-s half-life, 252-102 with a 2.3-s half-life, and 257-102 with a 23-s half-life.

Following tradition giving the right to name an element to the discoverer(s), the Berkeley group in 1967 suggested that the hastily given name nobelium, along with the symbol No, be retained.

Isotopes

Ten isotopes are now recognized, one of which -- 255-102 -- has a half-life of 3 minutes.

Reference

Los Alamos National Laboratory's Chemistry Division: Periodic Table - Nobelium

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Synonym: Nobelium

Synonym: atomic number 102 (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Nobelium

Non-English Usage: "Nobelium" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Dutch (nobelium).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nobelium

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
nobelium	5
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Modern Translations: Nobelium

Language		Translations for "nobelium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		nobelium. (various references)

Dutch		nobelium. (various references)

Esperanto		nobelio. (various references)

French		nobélium. (various references)

German		Nobelium. (various references)

Italian		nobelio. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ノースウェスト准州 (copy-book, Do not touch!, exercise book, know-how, no bra, no brand, no frost, no outs, No parking, no play, No smoking, no time, Nobel, noble, node, no-hit no-run game, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northwest, Northwest Territories, NOTAM, notebook, notice to airmen, notorious, panty-less, sleeveless, wearing no underwear, without a helmet). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ノーベリウ� . (various references)

Pig Latin		obeliumnay

Portuguese		nobélio. (various references)

Russian		нобелий. (various references)

Spanish		nobelio. (various references)

Thai		ธาตุบิวเลียม (สัญลักษ�"์ย่อคือ No). (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Nobelium

Derivations
	Words beginning with "nobelium": nobeliums. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Nobelium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nebulium, Nobilia. (additional references)
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Rhyming with "Nobelium"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "nobelium" (pronounced nōbe"lēum)
4	-l ē u m	beryllium, gallium, helium, linoleum, petroleum, psyllium, thallium.
3	-ē u m	alluvium, ammonium, aquarium, atrium, auditorium, axiom, bacterium, barium, cadmium, calcium, cesium, chromium, colloquium, compendium, condominium, consortium, crematorium, delirium, deuterium, disequilibrium, emporium, equilibrium, europium, fermium, geranium, gonium, gymnasium, hafnium, harmonium, Herbarium, holmium, honorarium, idiom, indium, iridium, lawrencium, lithium, magnesium, medium, millennium, minium, moratorium, myocardium, nephridium, neptunium, niobium, opium, opprobrium, osmium, palladium, pandemonium, paramecium, planetarium, Plasmodium, plutonium, podium, polonium, potassium, premium, presidium, promethium, protium, radium, requiem, rhodium, selenium, sodium, stadium, strontium, superpremium, symposium, tedium, tellurium, thorium, titanium, tritium, uranium, vanadium, yttrium, zirconium.
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Anagrams: Nobelium

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-i-l-m-n-o-u"
	-1 letter: nelumbo.
	-2 letters: emboli, lomein, milneb, mobile, moline, moulin, nimble, nubile, oilmen.
	-3 letters: biome, blume, boule, eloin, ileum, imbue, lemon, limbo, limen, linum, louie, lumen, melon, monie, noble, obeli, olein, oleum, onium, umbel.
	-4 letters: bile, bine, blin, blue, boil, bole, bone, ebon, enol, leno, lien, lieu, limb, lime, limn, limo, line, lino, lion, lobe, loin.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-i-l-m-n-o-u"
	+1 letter: columbine, nobeliums.
	+2 letters: columbines.
	+4 letters: beglamouring, communicable, incommutable, incomputable, inconsumable, unbecomingly, unmodifiable.
	+5 letters: incombustible, perambulation, troublemaking, unmentionable, unmetabolized, unproblematic.
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