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Bohrium     

Bohrium

Atomic Weight 264[note]
Density N/A
Melting Point N/A
Boiling Point N/A
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Bohrium is not boring, it's just named after Niels Bohr, who figured out the electron structure of atoms and thus explained the periodic table. (OK, bohrium, with a half-life under half a second, actually is boring.)

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Periodic Table Poster   Click here to buy a photographic periodic table poster based on the images you see here, including a new lenticular 3D version!
Bohrium Poster sample

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Poster sample.
This photograph of Niels Bohr appears in my Photographic Periodic Table Poster representing bohrium, which is named after him. This highly unstable element can't reasonably be photographed, and a picture of its namesake seemed like a reasonable alternative. The sample photograph includes text exactly as it appears in the poster, which you are encouraged to buy a copy of.
Periodic Table Poster
This photo is courtesy the Niels Bohr Archive, used with permission.
Source: Max Whitby of RGB
Contributor: Max Whitby of RGB
Acquired: 15 April, 2006
Price: Donated
Size: 6"
Purity: 0%
Bohrium Sample from the Everest Set

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Sample from the Everest Set.
Up until the early 1990's a company in Russia sold a periodic table collection with element samples. At some point their American distributor sold off the remaining stock to a man who is now selling them on eBay. The samples (except gasses) weigh about 0.25 grams each, and the whole set comes in a very nice wooden box with a printed periodic table in the lid.

Radioactive elements like this one are represented in this particular set by a non-radioactive dummy powder, which doesn't look anything like the real element. (In this case a sample of the pure element isn't really practical anyway since the element exists as a short-lived laboratory curiosity only.)

Since this set was made before 1997, they haven't even printed a name on the ampule: This element had not yet been named.

To learn more about the set you can visit my page about element collecting for a general description and information about how to buy one, or you can see photographs of all the samples from the set displayed on my website in a periodic table layout or with bigger pictures in numerical order.

Source: Rob Accurso
Contributor: Rob Accurso
Acquired: 7 February, 2003
Price: Donated
Size: 0.2"
Purity: 0%
Periodic Table Poster   Click here to buy a photographic periodic table poster based on the images you see here, including a new lenticular 3D version!