#109

MEITNERIUM

Mt
109 [278]

NAME UNINVESTIGATED SHORT-LIVED

? 4.5 S

Named for Austrian physicist Meitnerium’s low half-lives Meitnerium’s longest-lived

Lise Meitner; it’s the only and difficulty to produce isotope has a half-life of
element named after a non- means its chemistry has yet about 4.5 seconds. It has
mythological woman. to be investigated. no uses outside research.

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