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fermium gap

fermium gap noun: the phenomenon that elements beyond fermium cannot be synthesized by neutron bombardment, due to the very short spontaneous fission half-life of fermium-258.

Noun

fermium gap (uncountable)

  1. (nuclear physics) The phenomenon that elements beyond fermium cannot be synthesized by neutron bombardment, due to the very short spontaneous fission half-life of fermium-258.

Questions about fermium gap

What does fermium gap mean?
Fermium gap means the phenomenon that elements beyond fermium cannot be synthesized by neutron bombardment, due to the very short spontaneous fission half-life of fermium-258.
What part of speech is fermium gap?
Fermium gap is a noun.

Words near fermium gap in the dictionary

  1. fermiophobic
  2. fermis
  3. fermitin
  4. fermitins
  5. fermium
  6. fermium gap
  7. fermière
  8. Fermo
  9. Fermont
  10. Fermor
  11. fermorite

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