Nobelium [No] (CAS-ID: 10028-14-5) locate me
An: 102 N: 157 Am: [259]
Group Name: Actinoid
Block: f-block  Period: 7 (actinoid)
State: presumably a solid at 298 K
Colour: unknown, but probably metallic and silvery white or grey in appearance Classification: unknown, but probably metallic and silvery white or grey in appearance
Boiling Point: unknown (?)
Melting Point: unknown (?)
Density: unknown
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Discovery Information
Who: A. Ghiorso, T.Sikkeland, A.E.Larsh, R.M.Latimer
When: 1957
Where: Sweden
Name Origin
After Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite and founded Nobel Prize.
Sources
Only very small quantities of nobelium have ever been created. Made by bombarding curium with carbon-13.
Uses
Little is known about nobelium and only small quantities of it have ever been produced. It has no uses whatsoever outside of the laboratory.
Notes
Its most stable isotope, 259No, has a half-life of 58 minutes