fermium

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a synthetic radioactive chemical element with atomic number 100 and symbol Fm

   Only minute quantities of fermium can be produced for laboratory study.

Formed from Fermi + -ium and named for Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi. The element was discovered in debris from the first thermonuclear explosion in 1952.

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