Meitnerium information, including Technical Data, Safety Data and its high purity properties, research, applications and other useful facts are discussed below. Scientific facts such as the atomic structure, ionization energy, abundance on Earth, conductivity and thermal properties are included.
Meitnerium's appearance is unknown. Little is known about the element and it has no known uses. Meitnerium is a synthetic element that is not present in the environment.
Meitnerium is a is a D-Block, Group 9, Period 7 element. The number of electrons in each of Meitnerium's shells is 2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 15, 2 and its electronic configuration is [Rn]7s25f146d7[1]. In its elemental form Meitnerium's CAS number is 54038-01-6
Meitnerium was first created in 1982 by a team headed by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenber at the Heavy Ion Research Laboratory in Darmstadt, Germany.
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Abundance. The following table shows the abundance of Meitnerium and each of its naturally occurring isotopes on Earth along with the atomic mass for each isotope.
| Isotope |
Atomic Mass |
% Abundance on Earth |
| Mt-265 |
266.1366 |
- |
| Mt-266 |
266.13764 (45) |
- |
| Mt-267 |
267.1375 |
- |
| Mt-268 |
268.1388 |
- |
| Mt-269 |
269.1391 |
- |
| Mt-270 |
270.1407 |
- |
| Mt-271 |
271.1412 |
- |
| Mt-275 |
275 |
- |
| Mt-276 |
276 |
- |
The following table shows the abundance of Meitnerium present in the human body and in the universe scaled to parts per billion (ppb) by weight and by atom:
| |
Typical Human Body |
Universe |
| by Weight |
- |
- |
| by Atom |
- |
- |
Ionization Energy. The ionization energy for Meitnerium (the least required energy to release a single electron from the atom in it's ground state in the gas phase) is stated in the following table:
| 1st Ionization Energy |
kJ mol-1
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| 2nd Ionization Energy |
kJ mol-1
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Conductivity. No data.
Thermal Properties. The melting point and boiling point for Meitnerium are stated below. The following chart sets forth the heat of fusion, heat of vaporization and heat of atomization.
| Heat of Fusion |
No data |
| Heat of Vaporization |
No data |
| Heat of Atomization |
No data |
Recent Research & Development for Meitnerium
Himmel D, Knapp C, Patzschke M, Riedel S. How far can we go? Quantum-chemical investigations of oxidation state +IX. Chemphyschem. 2010 Mar 15;11(4):865-9.PubMed PMID: 20127784.
Research updated 8/9/2011
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