Mendelevium

Scientists made great progress having h.ad synthesized element 100 whose name at last honoured Enrico Fermi who had been the first to start on the quest for transuranium elements. 

But beyond fermium one could distinctly see the outlines of a great danger posed by the main enemy of the researchers working with transuranium elements, namely spontaneous 

Only five ( ) spontaneous fission events were recorded in the first experiment. But that was enough to identify an isotope of element 101. Later its half-life was found to be three hours and its mass number was 256. The half-life was unexpectedly long and contributed to successful synthesis of this new element. It was named mendelevium (Md) in honour of the great Bussian chemist D. Mendeleev who had been the first to use the periodic system for predicting the properties of unknown chemical elements. Thus said the discoverers of mendelevium. 

when the symbol Md was permanently settled in box 101 of the periodic table they described their discovery in colourful details. A gloomy feeling, dominated in the group, they told. Several careful experiments were performed in an attempt to synthesize and identify element 101, all to no avail. At last, the final decisive experiment was prepared and a success could be expected. At best, they hoped 

Suddenly, the pen of an automatic recorder jerked to the mid-scale and returned back tracing a thin red line. Such a burst of ionization had never been observed in the studies of radioactive materials. Probably, this was a signal of expected fission. After about an hour another signal was recorded. Now researchers were sure that two atoms of element 101 had decayed and it could be added to the list of chemical elements. 

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The use of larger particles in the cyclotron, for example carbon, nitrogen or oxygen ions, enabled elements of several units of atomic number beyond uranium to be synthesised. Einsteinium and fermium were obtained by this method and separated by ion-exchange. and indeed first identified by the appearance of their concentration peaks on the elution graph at the places expected for atomic numbers 99 and 100. The concentrations available when this was done were measured not in gcm but in atoms cm. The same elements became available in greater quantity when the first hydrogen bomb was exploded, when they were found in the fission products. Element 101, mendelevium, was made by a-particle bombardment of einsteinium, and nobelium (102) by fusion of curium and the carbon-13 isotope. 

In 1961, enough einsteinium was produced to separate a macroscopic amount of 253Es. This sample weighted about O.OlMg and was measured using a special magnetic-type balance. 253Es so produced was used to produce mendelevium (Element 101). 

Dmitri Mendeleev) Mendelevium, the ninth transuranium element of the actinide series discovered, was first identified by Ghiorso, Harvey, Choppin, Thompson, and Seaborg in early in 1955 during the bombardment of the isotope 253Es with helium ions in the Berkeley 60-inch cyclotron. The isotope produced was 256Md, which has a half-life of 76 min. This first identification was notable in that 256Md was synthesized on a one-atom-at-a-time basis. 

Md has been used to elucidate some of the chemical properties of mendelevium in aqueous solution. 

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Each of the elements has a number of isotopes (2,4), all radioactive and some of which can be obtained in isotopicaHy pure form. More than 200 in number and mosdy synthetic in origin, they are produced by neutron or charged-particle induced transmutations (2,4). The known radioactive isotopes are distributed among the 15 elements approximately as follows actinium and thorium, 25 each protactinium, 20 uranium, neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, californium, einsteinium, and fermium, 15 each herkelium, mendelevium, nobehum, and lawrencium, 10 each. There is frequently a need for values to be assigned for the atomic weights of the actinide elements. Any precise experimental work would require a value for the isotope or isotopic mixture being used, but where there is a purely formal demand for atomic weights, mass numbers that are chosen on the basis of half-life and availabiUty have customarily been used. A Hst of these is provided in Table 1. 

The other actinides have been synthesized in the laboratory by nuclear reactions. Their stability decreases rapidly with increasing atomic number. The longest lived isotope of nobelium (102N0) has a half-life of about 3 minutes that is, in 3 minutes half of the sample decomposes. Nobelium and the preceding element, mendelevium (ioiMd), were identified in samples containing one to three atoms of No or Md. 

Element 101 is named Mendelevium in honor of the great Russian chemist, Dmitri Mendeleev. The youngest of seventeen children, he was born in Tobolslca where his grandfather published the first newspaper in Siberia and his father ivaj the high school principal. Dmitri received his early education from a political exile, but when his father died, his mother traveled west in search of better educational opportunities for Dmitri. 

Mendeleev, Dimitri, 104,107 Mendelevium, oxidation number, 414 Mercuric perchlorate, 237 Mercurous perchlorate, 237 Mercury, oxidation numbers, 414 Mercury (planet), data on, 444 Metabolism, oxidative, 429 Metallic alloys, 309 bond, 303 elements. 303 radius, 380 substances, 81 Metals alkali, 94... 

Beyond Z = 100, synthesis by neutron bombardment of uranium is no longer effective. Instead, nuclides in the Z = 95 to 99 range are bombarded with beams of light nuclei. For example, mendelevium (Z = 101) was first... 

The names of all the elements and their symbols are shown in the tables in the back of this book. Most of the symbols match up with the names H for hydrogen, 0 for oxygen, C for carbon. He for helium, Li for lithium. Symbols for the newer elements are easy to interpret, too. Element 101, for instance, has the symbol Md and the well-deserved name of Mendelevium. But a few of the symbols in the periodic table do not match the names of their elements. Sodium, for instance, does not have the symbol So. Instead, it is Na. Potassium isn t Po, but rather K. 

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