Because of its rarity, berkelium presently has no commercial or technological use. From LearnThat.org. [http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/97.html]
The person who discovers the element gets to name it, which is why there are elements called berkelium and californium - for a while, UC Berkeley was the place to be for element hunters. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Entertainment] Reference
A team from the US and Russia produced the elusive element 117 by fusing together atoms of calcium and another rare, heavy element known as berkelium, filling in the final gap on the list of observed elements up to 118. From Wordnik.com. [Zee News : India National]
The team produced six atoms of the element by smashing together isotopes of calcium and a radioactive element called berkelium in a particle accelerator about 75 miles north of Moscow on the Volga River, according to a paper that has been accepted for publication at the journal. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
The team produced six atoms of the element by smashing together isotopes of calcium and a radioactive element called berkelium in a particle accelerator about 75 miles north of Moscow on the Volga River, according to a paper that has been accepted for publication at the journal Physical Review Letters. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
The two transuranium elements most recently discovered, berkelium and californium, correspond to terbium and dysprosium in the lanthanides. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951 - Presentation Speech] Reference
The entire process was driven by the 320-day half-life of the berkelium target material. From Wordnik.com. [YubaNet.com] Reference
In this case, the scientists used a cyclotron to bombard atoms of berkelium with atoms of calcium. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Reference
The target atom, berkelium, is itself a synthetic element created by bombarding americium with ions. From Wordnik.com. [Something Awful] Reference
The artificial elements berkelium, californium, and americium were produced at Berkeley, California. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4] Reference
Nestled in the Berkeley Hills, Cal is home to Nobel laureates, the first cyclotron, berkelium and a spirited student body. From Wordnik.com. [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference
Specifically, an isotope, or variation, of berkelium (berkelium-249) was bombarded with an isotope of calcium, calcium-48. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Reference
The team produced the elusive element 117 by fusing together atoms of calcium and a rare, heavy element known as berkelium. From Wordnik.com. [TG Daily] Reference
In fact, berkelium was created in a laboratory in Tennessee, then transported around the world to Russia for this experiment. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Reference
The team produced the elusive element 117 by fusing together atoms of calcium and another rare, heavy element known as berkelium. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The Russians collaborated with U.S. researchers, including some from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, where the berkelium target was made. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Reference
The Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory has produced a dozen superheavy elements called transuranics and bear such names as berkelium, californium, lawrencium and seaborgium. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories]
Because calcium contains 20 protons, simple math indicates scientists would have to fire the calcium at something with 97 protons - berkelium - to produce ununseptium, element. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
Because calcium contains 20 protons, simple math indicates scientists would have to fire the calcium at something with 97 protons -- berkelium -- to produce ununseptium, element. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
Astronomers reconsider how extraterrestrials could make contact This illustration shows the newly found element that formed when berkelium atoms were bombarded by calcium atoms. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Reference
Because calcium contains 20 protons, simple math indicates that scientists would have to fire the calcium at something with 97 protons - berkelium - in order to produce ununseptium, element 117. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
The element - which has no formal name but is known as ununseptium - was created by accelerating an atom of calcium (element 20) in a cyclotron and smashing it into an atom of berkelium (element 97). From Wordnik.com. [CBC | Top Stories News] Reference
berkelium is mighty hard to come by, but a research nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge produced about 20 milligrams of highly purified berkelium and sent it to Russia, where the substance was bombarded for five months late last year and early this year. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
berkelium happens to be mighty hard to come by, but a research nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge produced about 20 milligrams of highly purified berkelium and sent it to Russia, where the substance was bombarded for five months late last year and early this year. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
According to a paper recently accepted for publication by the journal Physical Review Letters, they have been able to create six atoms of ununseptium by colliding isotopes of calcium (20 on the periodic table) and berkelium (97), which exists only in minute quantities. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Opinion]
Parts of the discovery were made inside a particle accelerator in Dubna, Russia, during the time frame 2009-2010, when new element 117 was synthesized in the collision of isotopes of calcium (48Ca) and radioactive element berkelium (249Bk): in the reaction 249Bk + 48Ca. From Wordnik.com. [OCAU News] Reference
This was followed by 90 days of processing at Oak Ridge to separate and purify the berkelium, target preparation at Dimitrovgrad, 150 days of bombardment at one of the world's most powerful heavy ion accelerators at Dubna, data analysis at Livermore and Dubna, and assessment and review of the results by the team. From Wordnik.com. [YubaNet.com] Reference
250-day irradiation to produce 22 mg of berkelium. From Wordnik.com. [YubaNet.com] Reference
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