Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
nobelium

nobelium

1 9.9
A metal made in labs that gives off radiation and has atomic number 102
  • noun
  • /noʊˈbiːliəm/
  • Specialized
translation icon : nobelio
  • The 102nd element, nobelium, was discovered.

Or SGC borgium for Glenn Seaborg or NO Nobelium for Alfred Nobel.

Examples

  • "Nobelium" has stuck.

    Academic text (1993)

  • This group proposed the name nobelium for Alfred Nobel.

    Academic text (1993)

  • The Soviet researchers proposed the name joliotium, while the Berkeley team suggested that the name nobelium be retained.

    Academic text (1993)

  • By scientific convention, the country in which a new chemical element is discovered is given the honor of naming it; when element 02 was isolated in Sweden in 1958, it was christened Nobelium.

    Academic text (2000)

  • In Jasmine, Oklahoma, on Wednesday, July 10, 1957, the temperature had hit 102 degrees for the second day in a row, and Sam Beckett, who did not remember any of this except nobelium, woke in a stranger's bed and prepared himself once again to face a stranger's life and a stranger's future.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Nobelium is a synthetic element with the symbol No and an atomic number of 102.

  • The chemists successfully synthesized nobelium in the laboratory during their research.

  • As a radioactive transuranic element, nobelium has unique properties that make it valuable for scientific study.

Synonyms

atomic number 102
vsnobelium
  • Specialized
9.3

A radioactive metal element called nobelium with atomic number 102 that scientists use only for research

gives the element with a general mention of laboratory synthesis

Surface Forms

nobelium singular
nobelia plural

Morphology

nobelium = Nobel (semi-transparent) = nobel + ium

Formed by the proper name 'Nobel' plus the element-forming suffix '-ium'; the naming pattern is regular but the technical notion 'chemical element' may be specialized for average learners.

Etymology

Nobelium is named after the Swedish inventor Nobel, who gives his name to the 'Nobel Prize'. Scientists named this heavy, man-made, radioactive element after him, which is why it is called nobelium.