| Nobelium [No] (CAS-ID: 10028-14-5) | |
| An: 102 N: 157 Am: [259] | |
| Group Name: Actinoid | |
| Block: f-block Period: 7 (actinoid) | |
| State: presumably a solid at 298 K | |
| Colour: unknown, but probably metallic and silvery white or grey in appearance Classification: unknown, but probably metallic and silvery white or grey in appearance | |
| Boiling Point: unknown (?) | |
| Melting Point: unknown (?) | |
| Density: unknown | |
 Discovery Information |
| Who: A. Ghiorso , T.Sikkeland, A.E.Larsh, R.M.Latimer |
| When: 1957 |
| Where: Sweden |
| Name Origin |
| After Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite and founded Nobel Prize. |
| Sources |
| Only very small quantities of nobelium have ever been created. Made by bombarding curium with carbon-13. |
| Uses |
| It has no uses whatsoever outside of the laboratory. |
| Notes |
| Its most stable isotope , 259No, has a half-life of 58 minutes |