{"id":2734,"date":"2026-03-20T15:58:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:58:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:58:39","slug":"mendelevium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/mendelevium\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Mendelevium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mendelevium is a synthetic transuranic actinide first produced by neutron bombardment and named after Dmitri Mendeleev; it exists only in trace, laboratory quantities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Mendelevium<\/strong> | It exhibits typical actinide chemistry with a predominant +3 oxidation state and metallic behavior in bulk, though only microgram amounts have been characterized.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Mendelevium<\/strong> | No natural occurrence; used solely for basic research into actinide electronic structure and nuclear properties in specialized facilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Mendelevium<\/strong> | All isotopes are radioactive e.g., Md 258; handling requires radiological containment and remote techniques due to high radioactivity and scarcity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synthetic actinide produced for research into heavy element chemistry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5525,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions\/5525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}