Discovery Information
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Who: Physicists at the Heavy Ion Research Laboratory |
When: 1982 |
Where: Darmstadt, West Germany |
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Name Origin
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Named after Lise Meitner, a Swedish physicist who helped discover protactinium and first split the nucleus of uranium, creating what her team dubbed "fission".
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Sources
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First synthetically produced by bombarding Bi209 with accelerated nuclei of Fe58.
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Uses
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None. |
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Notes
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In August of 1997 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced the official naming of this element as Meitnerium.
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Element 109 was previously known as Unnilennium; from the latin for "one zero nine". |