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lawrencium
(Encyclopedia)lawrencium, artificially produced radioactive chemical element; symbol Lr; at. no. 103; mass number of most stable isotope 262; m.p. about 1,627℃; b.p. and sp. gr. unknown; valence +3. Lawrencium is...Periodic Table of the Elements: Lawrencium
(Encyclopedia)Periodic Table of the Elements: Lawrencium ...Lr
(Encyclopedia)Lr, symbol for the element lawrencium. ...Lw
(Encyclopedia)Lw, former symbol of the element lawrencium, now Lr. ...transactinide elements
(Encyclopedia)transactinide elements trănsˌăkˈtənīdˌ [key], in chemistry, elements with atomic numbers greater than that of lawrencium (at. no. 103), the last member of the actinide series. See transuranium ...actinide series
(Encyclopedia)actinide series, a series of radioactive metallic elements in Group 3 of the periodic table. Members of the series are often called actinides, although actinium (at. no. 89) is not always considered a...transuranium elements
(Encyclopedia)transuranium elements, in chemistry, radioactive elements with atomic numbers greater than that of uranium (at. no. 92). All the transuranium elements of the actinide series were discovered as synthet...Elements (table)
(Encyclopedia)Elements 1 Parentheses indicate most stable isotope; brackets enclose lower and upper bounds of weight variation. ...Browse by Subject
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