A team of scientists at the Berkeley Lab has reported some of the properties of element 99 in the periodic table called “Einsteinium”, named after Albert Einstein.
Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021
It was discovered in 1952 in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb (the detonation of a thermonuclear device called “Ivy Mike” in the Pacific Ocean).
Since its discovery, scientists have not been able to perform a lot of experiments with it because it is difficult to create and is highly radioactive.
The most common isotope of the element, einsteinium 253 has a half-life of 20 days.
