Elemental Analysis - Lawrentium (Lr)

The element lawrentium has been produced artificially and only in small quantities. Californium placed in a linear accelerator was bombarded with boron ions to obtain lawrentium. This method has been used in many experiments and several different isotopes of lawrentium have been produced in this way.

Lawrentium is a radioactive and synthetic metal, of which only a few atoms have ever been created. There is no commercial use of this element outside of scientific research.

There are 10 known isotopes of lawrentium. The most stable of these is the isotope lawrentium-262, with a half-life of about four hours.

The element lawrentium was first synthesized in 1961 in California. It is the last discovered member of the actinide series. A heavy ion linear accelerator was used to bombard a 3 milligram californium target with boron-10 and boron-11 ions. The target consisted of a mixture of californium isotopes. Therefore, an exact mass of the new element could not be determined. Later on It was understood that the isotope lawrensium-258 was produced. The half-life of this isotope is 4,2 seconds. All isotopes are short-lived. The longest-lived isotope is lawrentium-216 with a half-life of 262 minutes.

Lawrensium is considered harmful because of its radioactivity.

Lawrensium is a trivalent ion in aqueous solution.

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