Mendelevium [Md] (CAS-ID: 7440-11-1) locate me
An: 101 N: 157 Am: [258]
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: Metallic
Boiling Point: unknown (?)
Melting Point: 1100K (827'C)
Density: unknown
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Discovery Information
Who: G.T.Seaborg, S.G.Tompson, A. Ghiorso, K.Street Jr.
When: 1955
Where: United States
Name Origin
After the scientist Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeleyev, who devised the periodic table.
Sources
Purely synthetic element. Made by bombarding einsteinium with helium ions.
Uses
There are no other uses of mendelevium and only trace amounts of the element have ever been produced.