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Discovery of meitnerium

Meitnerium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Mt and atomic number 109. It is an extremely radioactive synthetic element. The most stable known isotope, meitnerium-278, has a half-life of 4.5 seconds, although the unconfirmed meitnerium-282 may have a longer half-life of 67 seconds.

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Timeline

  1. Discovery of dubniumFebruary 18, 1970
  2. Discovery of seaborgiumJuly 1974
  3. Discovery of bohrium1976
  4. Discovery of meitnerium (this page)August 29, 1982
  5. Discovery of hassium1984
  6. Discovery of darmstadtiumNovember 9, 1994

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