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Meitnerium

Statistics:

  • Name: Meitnerium
  • Symbol: Mt
  • Classification: Transition Metal
  • Atomic Number: 109
  • Atomic Mass: 266 g/mol
  • Density: unknown
  • Melting: unknown
  • Boiling: unknown
  • Protons & Electrons:109
  • Neutrons:157
  • Discovered: 1982
  • Discovered By: GSI

Electrons Per Energy Level:

  • Level 1: 2
  • Level 2: 8
  • Level 3: 18
  • Level 4: 32
  • Level 5: 32
  • Level 6: 15
  • Level 7: 2

Isotopes:

Isotope: Half-life

  • 226Mt: 0.8 milliseconds

Brief Summary

Meitnerium is a Transition Metal with the symbol 'Mt' and contains 109 Protons & Electrons with 157 neutrons in the nucleus of the atom. Meitnerium has an atomic mass of 266 g/mol .

Meitnerium was discovered by GSI in 1982 and is named 'Meitnerium' After Austrian physicist, Lise Meitner.

Some common usages for Meitnerium: currently unknown.

Definitions and Notes

Density listed is at a temperature of 20°C.

Isotopes are forms of an element who have the same atomic number but different mass because they contain different number of neutrons.

Half-life is the time required for a quantity of a subject to fall to half of its current quantity.

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