noun
- Plural of mendelevium; atoms or samples of the synthetic chemical element with atomic number 101.
Usage: chemistry; technical
Examples
- Mendeleviums are highly radioactive and exist only in laboratory settings.
- The research team isolated trace amounts of mendeleviums during the particle collision experiment.
- Mendeleviums decay rapidly and have very short half-lives.
- Scientists named mendeleviums after Dmitri Mendeleev, the creator of the periodic table.