Word: ekarhenium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hahn bombarded his bit of uranium with neutrons in order to obtain ekarhenium, a heavy element similarly created some years ago by Italian Physicist Enrico Fermi. Hahn obtained ekarhenium, all right, and something else he did not expect, which he identified as atoms of barium and krypton. He applied the principles of quantum mechanics (atomic mathematics) to find out how much of a tempest in a test tube occurs when ekarhenium breaks up into barium and krypton. Answer: 200,000,000 volts...
...Italy's brilliant Enrico Fermi produced tiny, short-lived quantities of ekarhenium and ekaosmium (Nos. 93 and 94) by bombarding uranium with neutrons. These new substances were entirely synthetic, however, like the many synthetic, artificially radioactive elements which physicists have brought to birth by similar bombardments (TIME...
...became an expert on molecular oscillations and the Brownian movement (movement of visible particles in liquids because of impacts from flying molecules). In 1926 he was awarded a Nobel Prize. Today he is president of the French Academy of Sciences. Last week he announced the discovery of naturally occurring ekarhenium-element...
What Professor Perrin reported last week was the existence of ekarhenium in pitchblende ore, mother substance of radium. His collaborators used a powerful spectroscope, which splits up radiations from atoms into significant bands and lines. When the pitchblende was analyzed, four faint new lines appeared. Calculation showed that these lines must belong to ekarhenium...
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