fermium in English
noun
1
the chemical element of atomic number 100, a radioactive metal of the actinide series. Fermium does not occur naturally and was discovered in 1953 in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion.
Scientists have for the first time literally shed light on properties of the radioactive element fermium - a metal discovered some 50 years ago.
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1. After production, the fermium must be separated from other actinides and from lanthanide fission products.
2. The Actinides is the collective name given to elements 90-103 in the periodic table, comprising thorium, protactinium, uranium, neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and lawrencium