What is Meitnerium found in????
Meitnerium was first produced by Peter Armbruster, Gottfried Münzenber and their team working at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany in 1982. They bombarded atoms of bismuth-209 with ions of iron-58 with a device known as a linear accelerator. This produced atoms of meitnerium-266, an isotope with a half-life of about 3.8 milliseconds (0.0038 seconds), and a free neutron. Meitnerium’s most stable isotope, meitnerium-276, has a half-life of about 0.72 seconds. It decays into bohrium-272 through alpha decay. Since only small amounts of meitnerium have ever been produced, it currently has no uses outside of basic scientific research.
