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What the name
means: Bohrium was named after
the Danish physicist and Nobel Laureate,
Niels Bohr.
The International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry (IUPAC) had given the new element
the name Unnilseptium, with the symbol
Uns. In 1997 the IUPAC accepted the name
bohrium (after rejecting the name
nielsbohrium).
Who made
bohrium?: Gottfried Münzenberg,
Sigurd Hofmann
and their team at the Institute for Heavy
Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany
in 1981.
About bohrium:
Bohrium was made by bombarding
bismuth atoms with chromium atoms at the Heavy
Ion Research Institute. Only a few atoms of
bohrium have ever been made. Bohrium atoms
have a half life of 10 seconds. |
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