Meitnerium - Periodic Table of Videos
We've made a new video about element 109, which was created in Darmstadt, Germany. The Professor also gets a chance to put forward his suggested name ...
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I am in the coffee room where element 109, meitnerium was named. In here, imagine it: 20 people sitting round arguing “What are we going to call this new element?” Writing the names on the blackboard…they rubbed it off! But there, they had the whole choice of what the elements were called. Like many others of these very heavy elements, meitnerium was made by taking a nucleus of a heavy element and banging into it a lighter element. In the case of this one you have lead with atomic number 82 and bang into it cobalt, or alternatively you can have bismuth which has atomic number 83 and bang in iron which has atomic number one less than cobalt so you have 2 different ways of making the same element. I was just told by Sigurd Hofmann, one of the discoverers, they chose the name, mietnerium ...
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I am in the coffee room where element 109, meitnerium was named. In here, imagine it: 20 people sitting round arguing “What are we going to call this new element?” Writing the names on the blackboard…they rubbed it off! But there, they had the whole choice of what the elements were called. Like many others of these very heavy elements, meitnerium was made by taking a nucleus of a heavy element and banging into it a lighter element. In the case of this one you have lead with atomic number 82 and bang into it cobalt, or alternatively you can have bismuth which has atomic number 83 and bang in iron which has atomic number one less than cobalt so you have 2 different ways of making the same element. I was just told by Sigurd Hofmann, one of the discoverers, they chose the name, mietnerium ...
