Fermium by Elliot Rieflin

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• Fermium by Elliot Rieflin

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Uses for Fermium

• only very little fermium has ever been made so
  fermium has no uses.
• Scientists dont think enough will be gathered to
  tell what it can be used for

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Properties of Fermium

• A radioactive metal
• obtained only in millionth-of-a-gram quantities
  in nuclear reactors
• Color is not known
• melting point 1800 C
• Phase at Room Temperature is Solid

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Cool Facts About
Fermium

• Has a 30min. life span
• Actinides series
• Isolated in the debris of a hydrogen bomb test in
  the Pacific Ocean.
• The element is named after Enrico Fermi, the
  atomic physicist.
• 1952 by G.R. Choppin and co-workers
• It was by chemical identification of 250Fm,(type
  of Fermium) that production of Element 102
  (nobelium) was confirmed.
• pronounced FER-mi-em.
• fermium is produced though a lengthy chain of
  nuclear reactions that involves bombarding each
  isotope in the chain with neutrons and then
  allowing the resulting isotope to go trough beta
  decay.
• Also produced by bombarding lighter transuranium
  elements with still lighter particles or by
  neutron capture.
• Also produced by bombardment of plutonium with
  neutrons.
• Found in earths crust

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Isolated in the debris of a hydrogen bomb test
in the Pacific Ocean.
by G.R. Choppin
made
Named after Enrico Fermi.
In 1952
Also made by His co-workers
Fermium
Phase at Room Temperature is Solid
obtained only in millionth-of-a-gram quantities
in nuclear reactors
By Bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
It was by Studying A type of Fermium That
nobelium Was confirmed.
Melting point Is at 1800 K
A highly radioactive metal
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