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Fermium: the essentials

Fermium's chemical properties are largely unknown. Fermium is a radioactive rare earth metal. The longest living isotope is is ²⁵⁷Fm with a half-life of 80 days. It is of no commercial importance.

Table: basic information about and classifications of fermium.
Name: Fermium Symbol: Fm Atomic number: 100 Atomic weight: [ 257 ] Standard state: presumably a solid at 298 K CAS Registry ID: 7440-72-4	Group in periodic table: Group name: Actinoid Period in periodic table: 7 (actinoid) Block in periodic table: f-block Colour: unknown, but probably metallic and silvery white or grey in appearance Classification: Metallic

Fermium: historical information

Fermium was discovered by Workers at Argonne, Los Alamos, USA, and the University of California at Berkeley, USA. at 1952 in USA. Origin of name: named after "Enrico Fermi".

Fermium was identified by Ghiorso and coworkers (Berkeley, California, USA) in 1952 in the radioactive debris from a thermonuclear explosion in the Pacific. Somewhat remarkably, the fermium isotope discovered was made through the combination of ²³⁸U with 17 neutrons. Today, many isotopes are known spanning the mass range 243-258.

Fermium: physical properties

Melting point: about 1800 [or 1527 °C (2781 °F)] K
Boiling point: no data K
Density of solid: no data kg m^-3

Ground state electron configuration: [Rn].5f¹².7s²
Shell structure: 2.8.18.32.30.8.2
Term symbol: ³H₆
Pauling electronegativity: 1.3 (Pauling units)
First ionisation energy: 627 kJ mol^-1
Second ionisation energy: no data kJ mol^-1

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Fermium
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Fermium

Fermium: the essentials

Fermium: historical information

Fermium: physical properties

Fermium: orbital properties

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