mendelevium

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a synthetic radioactive metallic chemical element with atomic number 101 and symbol Md

   The first atoms of mendelevium were produced by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles.

Formed from a Latinized version of Mendeleev + -ium and named for Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, creator of the periodic classification that predicted several then-undiscovered elements.

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