Element Names Y
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- 2. Meitner was the first person to realize that Einstein's idea of making mass into __________ could be used in fission
- 3. To create his first table, Mendeleev wrote the p_____________ of the different elements on different cards so he could compare them and move the cards around in an attempt to find order among them.
- 4. Lise Meitner worked with this famous scientist (last name only; starts with "P")
- 6. This person was the co-discoverer of 10 of the synthetic elements
- 7. Meitner's nephew; also a famous scientist
- 8. The name of Hassium is derived from the German state of ___________ where Hassium was first made/synthesized.
- 10. This is the place in Tennessee where E. Lawrence and the rest of the scientists on the Manhattan Project succeeded in designing the atomic bomb. (2 words separated by a space)
- 11. Oganesson is named for the physicist __________ Oganessian.
- 14. Marie Curie received a Nobel Prize for her work with this
- 15. In 1921, President _____________ on behalf of the women of America, presented Marie Curie with one gram of one of the elements that she co-discovered in recognition of her service to science.
- 19. Georgy Flerov helped discover spontaneous __________.
- 20. Glenn Seaborg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the t____________________ elements.
- 24. Inventor of dynamite
- 26. Enrico Fermi helped make the first controlled n____________ r______________ (space between words)
- 27. Meitner and her nephew used the idea of Neils Bohr's ____________ d__________ (2 words separated by a space) to explain nuclear behavior
- 28. Curie actively promoted the use of the element _________ to decrease pain/suffering
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- 1. Enrico Fermi's nickname (two words with a space between)
- 5. Dynamite is a stabilized form of n______________ and was invented in 1867.
- 6. Lise Meitner was exiled to ________ which is why some people didn't know of her contributions to science
- 9. One of the major problems that E. Lawrence and the rest of the scientists on the Manhattan Project had to solve was the _____________ of the 2 forms of Uranium.
- 12. Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues first discovered/MADE the element _______________.
- 13. Georgy Flerov was a s___________ physicist.
- 16. _______________ (last name) discovered the x-ray. (be careful, this word has a "oe" in it...the internet shows an O with dots above it)
- 17. At Hanford, Fermi inserted the first _______ fuel slug into the B Reactor (an element)
- 18. One of the 2 elements Marie Curie co-founded
- 21. _____________ is a SUPERHEAVY, synthetically made element with a half-life of less than a thousandth of a second, making it difficult to discover or put into practical use.
- 22. the ACTUAL discoverer of radioactivity
- 23. Mendeleev wanted to bring order to the elements which led to the discovery of the _________ l__________. (2 words separated by a space)
- 25. Glenn Seaborg also helped to develop the extraction process used to isolate the plutonium fuel for the __________ ___________. (2 words separated by a space)