All About - Mendelevium (Extended)

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What is Mendelevium? A documentary report all about Mendelevium for the blind and visually impaired or for homework/assignment. Mendelevium is a synthetic element with chemical symbol Md (formerly Mv) and atomic number 101. A metallic radioactive transuranic element in the actinide series, it is the first element that currently cannot be produced in macroscopic quantities through neutron bombardment of lighter elements. It is the antepenultimate actinide and the ninth transuranic element. It can only be produced in particle accelerators by bombarding lighter elements with charged particles. A total of sixteen mendelevium isotopes are known, the most stable being 258Md with a half-life of 51 days; nevertheless, the shorter-lived 256Md (half-life 1.27 hours) is most commonly used in chemistry because it can be produced on a larger scale. Intro/Outro music: Discovery Hit/Chucky the Construction Worker - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under CC-BY-3.0 Text derived from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelevium Text to Speech powered by tts-api.com Images are Public Domain or CC-BY-3.0: Electron_shell_101_mendelevium.png from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_shell_101_mendelevium.png 702px-Electron_shell_101_mendelevium.png from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_shell_101_mendelevium.png 549px-Electron_shell_101_mendelevium.png from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_shell_101_mendelevium.png 200px-Electron_shell_101_Mendelevium.svg.png from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_shell_101_Mendelevium.svg 150px-Electron_shell_101_Mendelevium.svg.png from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mendelevium Md_datasheet.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelevium