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- Name : Mendelevium
- Symbol : Md
- Atomic # : 101
- Atom weight: 258 (Estimated value)
- Melting P. :
- Boiling P. :
- Oxidation : +2, +3
- Pronounced : men-deh-LEE-vi-em
- From : Named in honor of Dmitri Mendeleyev
- Identified : Albert Ghiorso, Bernard G. Harvey, Gregory R. Choppin, Stanley
- G. Thompson, and Glenn T. Seaborg in 1955
- Appearance : Radioactive, synthetic metal
- Note : Another product of the Berkeley lab at the University of
- California
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- [Properties]
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- Mendelevium has isotopes with mass numbers between 248 and 259.
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