109. Meitnerium

Name: Meitnerium
Symbol: Mt
Atomic Number: 109
Atomic Mass: (266.0) amu
Melting Point: Unknown
Boiling Point: Unknown
Number of Protons/Electrons: 109
Number of Neutrons: 157
Classification: Transition Metal
Crystal Structure: Unknown
Density(293 K): Unknown
Color: Unknown

Element 109, meitnerium, is a synthetic element that is not present in the environment at all.

Meitnerium was first synthesized on August 29, 1982 by a German research team led by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Munzenberg at the Institute for Heavy Ion Research at Darmstadt. The team did this by bombing a target of bismuth-209 with accelerated nuclei of iron-58. The creation of this element demonstrated that nuclear fusion techniques could be used to make new, heavy nuclei.

The name meitnerium was suggested in honor of the Austrian-Swedish physicist and mathematician Lise Meitner, but there was an element naming controversy as to what the elements from 101 to 109 were to be called; thus IUPAC adopted unnilennium (symbol Une) as a temporary, systematic element name. However in 1997 they resolved the dispute and adopted the current name.

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