This element wasn't even named until roughly 200 trillion half-lives had passed after the birth and death of the original atom. This week's element is meitnerium, which has the atomic symbol, Mt, and ...

Meitnerium was first discovered by Gottfried Münzenber and Peter Armbruster at Heavy Ion Research Laboratory in Darmstadt, Germany in 1982. They bombarded bismuth-209 atoms with iron-58 ions in a ...

Creating mnemonic phrases can help you remember the order of elements, especially for the first 20 elements or specific groups. These phrases are general and are available on other free online sources ...

Look along the bottom row of a standard periodic table and, at number 108, you’ll find meitnerium. A highly radioactive element that doesn’t exist in nature, the half-life of its most stable element ...