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Elements / 102

102No[259]

Nobelium

Actinide · f-block · ring Q

Nobelium is element 102, an actinide. It is one of the actinides, which the spiral keeps in line on ring Q instead of exiling them to a strip below the table.

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Properties

DensityNot measuredTerrain →
Melting pointNot measuredTerrain →
Boiling pointNot measuredTerrain →
Electronegativity1.30Terrain →
First ionization energy642 kJ/molTerrain →
Atomic weight259 uTerrain →
Crustal abundanceNot measuredTerrain →
Discovered1965Terrain →

Values from open reference data; see sources. "Terrain" opens that property as a 3D landscape across the whole spiral.

Two things you might not know

  1. Wrongly claimed in Stockholm in 1957, then retracted. In 1992 IUPAC credited a Soviet team. Its +2 state beats +3 in water.
  2. Named after the inventor of dynamite and benefactor of science.

Checked against en.wikipedia.org.

Actinides

Ring Q (period 7)

Play with Nobelium

Watch it fly into its seat, or raise the whole spiral into a landscape and see where it peaks.