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What the name
means: Meitnerium was named after
Lise Meitner, an Austrian physicist.
The International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry (IUPAC) had given the new element
the name Unnilenium, with the symbol
Une. In 1997 the IUPAC accepted the name
meitnerium.
Who made
meitnerium? Gottfried Münzenberg, Peter Armbruster
and their team at the Institute for Heavy
Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany
in 1982.
About meitnerium:
Meitnerium was made by fusing
bismuth atoms with iron atoms at the Heavy
Ion Research Institute. Only a few atoms of
meitnerium have ever been made and, since
atoms of meiterium have a half-life of
milliseconds, the atoms of meiterium
produced did not stay intact for long! |
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