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nobelium
nobelium , artificially produced radioactive chemical element; symbol No; at. no. 102; mass no. of most stable isotope 259; m.p. 827°C; b.p. and density unknown; valence +2, +3. It is a metal of the actinide series in Group 3 of the periodic table . Nobelium was the 10th transuranium element... Read more
actinide series
actinide series a series of radioactive metallic elements in Group 3 of the periodic table . Members of the series are often called actinides, although actinium (at. no. 89) is not always considered a member of the series. The series always includes the 14 elements with atomic numbers 90 through... Read more
Glenn Theodore Seaborg
Glenn Theodore Seaborg , 1912-99, American chemist, b. Ishpeming, Mich., grad. Univ. of California at Los Angeles, 1934, Ph.D. Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1937. In 1939, he began teaching at Berkeley, where he became professor of chemistry (1945) and chancellor of the university (1958). During ... Read more
transuranium elements
transuranium elements in chemistry, radioactive elements with atomic numbers greater than that of uranium (at. no. 92). All the transuranium elements of the actinide series were discovered as synthetic radioactive isotopes at the Univ. of California at Berkeley or at Argonne National Laboratory... Read more

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nobelium
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition nobelium , artificially produced radioactive chemical...series in Group 3 of the periodic table . Nobelium was the 10th transuranium element to be...246 with carbon-12 ions, producing nobelium-254 ( half-life 55 sec). The name...
Periodic Table of the Elements: Nobelium
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Periodic Table of the Elements: Nobelium Periodic Table of the Elements: Nobelium Atomic Number: 102 Atomic Symbol: No Nobelium Atomic Weight: (259) Electron Configuration: 2 · 8 ·&thinsp...
Actinides
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...protactinium, uranium, neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, and lawrencium. (Note: Lawrencium is sometimes not grouped with the actinides but with the transition metals.) The actinide...
transuranium elements
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...number they are neptunium , plutonium , americium , curium , berkelium , californium , einsteinium , fermium , mendelevium , nobelium , and lawrencium . Of these only neptunium and plutonium occur in nature; they are produced in minute amounts in the radioactive...
actinide series
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...protactinium , uranium , neptunium , plutonium , americium , curium , berkelium , californium , einsteinium , fermium , mendelevium , nobelium , and lawrencium . Thorium and uranium are the only actinides found in the earth's crust in appreciable quantities, although...
Element, Transuranium
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...Am = americium, Cm = curium, Bk = berkelium, Cf = californium, Es = einsteinium, Fm = fermium, Md = mendelevium, No = nobelium, and Lr = lawrencium. Names for elements 104 to 109 are: Ru = rutherfordium, Db = dubnium, Sg = seaborgium, Bh = bohrium...
Symbol, Chemical
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...October 2006, the names (and their symbols and numbers) of the elements from 101 to 111 are: Mendelevium (Md, 101), Nobelium (No, 102), Lawrencium (Lr, 103), Rutherfordium (Rf, 104), Dubnium (Db, 105), Seaborgium (Sg, 106), Bohrium...
Elements
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Ni 28 58.69 1453. 2732. niobium Nb 41 92.9064 2468. ±10 4742. nitrogen N 7 14.0067 -209.86 -195.8 nobelium No 102 (259) 827. — osmium Os 76 190.2 3045. ±30 5027. ±100 oxygen O 8 15.9994 -218...
No
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition No symbol for the element nobelium .
chemical elements
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...2732 1751 Niobium Nb 41 92.9064 3, 5 2468 4742 1801 Nitrogen N 7 14.0067 3, 5 ―210 ―195.8 1772 Nobelium No 102 (255) ―― ―― ―― 1958 Osmium Os 76 190.2 2, 3, 4...

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nobelium
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...x113;əm / • n. the chemical element of atomic number 102, a radioactive metal of the actinide series. Nobelium does not occur naturally and was first produced by bombarding curium with carbon nuclei. (Symbol: No )
No
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English No 1 • symb. the chemical element nobelium. No 2 • n. variant spelling of Noh .

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[ * If someone asks you for the scientific abbreviation for the element Nobelium, tell them "No."... ]
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 5/30/2006; 442 words ; * If someone asks you for the scientific abbreviation for the element Nobelium, tell them "No." * Newborn rabbits are helpless for quite a long time, but baby hares can hop around within minutes of being...
The Red Pencil
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/22/2000; ; 289 words ; ...because a radioactive element is named after him: nobelium. Nobelium is represented by the symbol No. Remember your periodic table? No. Yes, that's the element nobelium. Alfred Nobel also founded the famous Nobel prizes...
Analysis: Periodic table of elements
Transcript from: NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday; 7/19/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...and fermium, berkelium and also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium and argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium...EMSLEY: And I think the only element that's mentioned, nobelium, which was the one that had been discovered about mid-1950s...
Letter banks from the chemical elements.
Magazine article from: Word Ways; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...kurehatovium, mendelevium, molybdenum, neodymium, niobium, nobelium, promethium, rutherfordium, unnilhexium, vanadium, wolfram...can be found on various websites; the surname Belluomini (nobelium) can also be found on several websites, as can fowlfarm...
A Chemist in the White House.(Review)
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry; 11/2/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...than ten of these elements: plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and seaborgium. As a direct result of his discoveries, Seaborg was able to formulate the concept of the actinide elements...
It glows in the dark in more ways than one
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/21/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...discovered. He and his co-workers later made some of these: berkelium in 1949, californium (1950), mendelevium (1955) and nobelium (1958). In 1994, Seaborg was immortalised when the American Chemical Society named element 106 as seaborgium. The writer...
Chemist honored on periodic table. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 3/13/1994; ; 674 words ; ...discovery of a series of heavier elements _ americum, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and now seaborgium. Seaborg shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1951 for his work on these elements. Seaborg later served...
A chemical glance at short-lived elements.
Magazine article from: Science News; 9/8/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...detailed studies of the chemical properties of lawrencium, the last member of the actinide series. Lawrencium-262 also decays into nobelium-262, an isotope of element 102 containing more neutrons than any other known atomic nucleus.
The irrefutable value of the word 'no'
Magazine article from: DVM; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; No is the abbreviation for Norway and the element Nobelium. It is also much easier to say than disambiguation, a most powerful management tool that is far too seldom used. The word...
Commentary: List of elements set to "I am a Very Model of a Modern Major General"
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 8/24/2000; 371 words ; ...calcium, chromium, and curium. There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium, and also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium, and argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium, and chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin...