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Facts About Nobelium and Berkelium


Facts About Berkelium and Nobelium


Facts

Interesting Facts
  • The most stable isotope of Nobelium metal is No-259.
  • No-259 has a half-life of fifty-eight minutes.
  
  • X-ray Diffraction- different compounds of Berkelium metals are identified using it.
    Commercial uses of Berkelium metal are not yet discovered.
  

Sources
Bombarding Curium-246 or Curium-249 with Carbon-12 Nuclei, Found in Minerals, Mining   
Bombarding Americium with Alpha Particles.   

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research   
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   

Discovery
In 1966   
In 1949   

Abundance
  
  

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