Meitnerium (Mt) Fun Facts
"The Fissionary, a hero named to honor the brilliant female physicist who co-discovered nuclear fission but was overlooked for a Nobel Prize."
The true essence of Meitnerium (Mt) on the molecular frontier.
Meitnerium is a synthetic, highly radioactive element.
Meitnerium has no everyday connection, used only in research.
Meitnerium�s naming corrected a historical injustice to physicist Lise Meitner.
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It is named in honor of Lise Meitner, the Austrian-Swedish physicist who was a pioneer in nuclear physics and a co-discoverer of nuclear fission.
The naming of the element after Meitner was seen as a long-overdue honor for a brilliant scientist who was overlooked for the Nobel Prize for the discovery of fission.
It was created by bombarding a bismuth-209 target with iron-58 ions. The first synthesis produced only a single atom.
It is a member of Group 9 and is expected to be a very dense, solid metal at room temperature.
Its most stable isotope has a half-life of about 7.6 seconds.