Fermium - Periodic Table of Videos
Fermium is named after a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and nuclear power. More links in description below ↓↓↓ Support Periodic Videos on Patreon: ...
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Ok, Fermium, it has absolutely no use as far as anyone knows except that it’s extremely radioactive. It’s named after Enrico Fermi who is a well-known physicist. Fermi was an Italian physicist who in the 1930s was the first person to discover artificial radioactivity. This is where neutrons, which had only recently been discovered when they did these experiments, hit an element that is not radioactive, increase the weight of the nucleus but not the number of protons and cause it to fall apart by radioactive decay. And it also, like Einsteinium, where it was first found in the debris of a nuclear bomb, in fact the very first nuclear bomb that was ever tested. Shortly after the fascists took power in Italy, Fermi moved to the United States and, as part of the Manhattan project for ...
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Ok, Fermium, it has absolutely no use as far as anyone knows except that it’s extremely radioactive. It’s named after Enrico Fermi who is a well-known physicist. Fermi was an Italian physicist who in the 1930s was the first person to discover artificial radioactivity. This is where neutrons, which had only recently been discovered when they did these experiments, hit an element that is not radioactive, increase the weight of the nucleus but not the number of protons and cause it to fall apart by radioactive decay. And it also, like Einsteinium, where it was first found in the debris of a nuclear bomb, in fact the very first nuclear bomb that was ever tested. Shortly after the fascists took power in Italy, Fermi moved to the United States and, as part of the Manhattan project for ...
