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fermium Noun Chem an element artificially produced by neutron bombardment of plutonium Symbol: Fm[after Enrico Fermi, physicist]
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The team studied less than 2 billionths of a gram of fermium painstakingly produced by Oak Ridge (Tenn. The compilations contains K- and L x-ray transition and absorption edge energies for all of the elements from neon to fermium and includes carefully selected and evaluated experimental data and trusted estimates obtained from state-of-the-art theoretical procedures. The idea that an element has never been named after a living scientist is incorrect, since elements 99 and 100 were named einsteinium and fermium while Einstein and Fermi were alive, though the names were not sanctioned officially until after they had died. |
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