Nobelium - Wikiparency

# Nobelium ## 🧊 Nobelium · 3D (three.js) <iframe src="https://wikitube-elements.netlify.app/?el=No&embed=1" width="100%" height="620" frameborder="0" style="border:0;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden" allowfullscreen loading="lazy" title="The Elements 3D microsim - Nobelium"></iframe> *Nobelium in the live three.js Elements explorer — drag to orbit the atom, click any tile to compare, slide the temperature.* · [▶ open full](https://wikitube-elements.netlify.app/?el=No)  !Nobelium plate.svg *Plate 102 of 118 - animated Bohr shells, stylized per Madelung filling; engraving style per house Arcanity kit.* ## Microsim To Do *Claimable rows, house pattern. Real Wikipedia articles only.* - [[Nuclear_fusion|Nuclear fusion]] - the fusion process used to create transuranium elements - [[Curium|Curium]] - the target element for Nobelium synthesis - Carbon-12 - the projectile nucleus in Nobelium creation - Cyclotron - the machine enabling transuranic element synthesis ## Links (Wikipedia order)  `Aaldert_Wapstra` · `Acetate` · `Actinide` · [[Actinium]] · `Adsorption` · `Albert_Ghiorso` · `Alfred_Nobel` · `Alkali_metal` · `Alkaline_earth_metal` · [[Alpha_decay]] · [[Alpha_particle]] · [[Aluminium]] · [[Americium]] · `Ammonium_nitrate` · [[Antimony]] · `Aqueous_solution` · [[Argon]] · `Argonne_National_Laboratory` · [[Arsenic]] · [[Astatine]] · `Atomic_nucleus` · `Atomic_number` · `Australian_National_University` · [[Barium]] · [[Berkelium]] · [[Beryllium]] · [[Beta_decay]] · [[Bismuth]] · `Block_(periodic_table)` · `Bloomberg_Businessweek` · [[Bohrium]] · [[Boron]] · `Boron_group` · [[Bromine]] · `CAS_Registry_Number` · [[Cadmium]] · 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· `Weak_interaction` · `World_Scientific` · [[Xenon]] · [[Ytterbium]] · [[Yttrium]] · `Yuri_Oganessian` · [[Zinc]] · [[Zirconium]] > **Official MAIN - Chemical element, Z = 102.** Part of the Elements Canon (one canonical page per element). Infobox grounded in [Wikipedia: List of chemical elements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements), fetched 2026-07-08. Full article: [Wikipedia: Nobelium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobelium).  ## Key facts (infobox) | | | |---|---| | Symbol - Z | No - 102 | | Group - Period - Block | f - 7 - f-block | | Atomic weight (Da) | [259] | | Density (g/cm3) | (9.9) | | Melting - Boiling (K) | (1100) - - | | Electronegativity (Pauling) | 1.3 | | Crustal abundance (mg/kg) | - | | Origin | synthetic | | Phase (STP) | unknown | | Name origin | Alfred Nobel | *Bracketed weights are the mass number of the most stable isotope; values in parentheses are predictions (per the source table).* ## Story Nobelium was first synthesized in 1957 at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory by researchers including Glenn Seaborg, through bombardment of curium with carbon nuclei. The element is named for Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite whose fortune endowed the Nobel Prize—honoring the man who gave the world its most prestigious scientific award. Like Mendelevium before it, Nobelium exists only as a synthetic isotope, with No-259 being the longest-lived at approximately 58 minutes [model-prior - verify]. Nobelium's chemical behavior is expected to follow the actinide trend, with a +3 oxidation state and properties similar to the rare earth elements [model-prior - verify]. The element's half-lives are measured in minutes to hours, making detailed chemistry impossible—its nature is known chiefly by theory and neutron-bombard prediction. It continues the sequence of Technetium's legacy: elements synthesized in cyclotrons, existing only in human-made form, filling the periodic table's deepest reaches. The naming is an act of honor in the tradition of element discovery. Alfred Nobel's patronage enabled the very awards that celebrated nuclear physics; now his name crowns an element that could never occur without the physics and chemistry his prize supported. ## Corpus connections - R.E.A.C.T.I.O.N. - the Chemistry hub - Centers of Excellence Portal - [[Technetium|Technetium - the element made before found]] - the canon's patron - and Technitium, the School - [Alfred Nobel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel) - inventor, philanthropist, and namesake of the Nobel Prize ## Vocational-Technical Semiotics The element speaks the canon's shared signs: the periodic table cell (No, group f, period 7), isotope notation, and hazard pictograms ghs where handling demands it. ## Sources Infobox: [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements) (fetched 2026-07-08); etymology per the same table's notes. Story sources to be added at enrichment. ## Navigation - Canon: Elements Canon index - neighbors by Z: [[Mendelevium|Mendelevium (101)]] - [[Lawrencium|Lawrencium (103)]] - R.E.A.C.T.I.O.N. - Centers of Excellence ## Wikipedia : Wikitube **Strict pair:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobelium) : [Wikitube](https://en.wikitube.io/wiki/Nobelium) ## Previous hub tags Tree parents: [[Helium]] · [[Hydrogen]] · [[Oxygen]]. Legacy hubs: none. --- *Sources: 1 legacy note. Minted wave 1, 2026-07-30 (v1.6 order).*