Periodic Table of Elements

Element Bohrium - Bh

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Overview of Bohrium

Bohrium's Name in Other Languages

  • Latin: Bohrium
  • Czech: Bohrium
  • Croatian: Bohrij
  • French: Bohrium
  • German: Bohrium - s
  • Italian: Bohrium
  • Norwegian: Bohrium
  • Portuguese:
  • Russian: Борий
  • Spanish: Bohrio
  • Swedish:

Atomic Structure of Bohrium

Chemical Properties of Bohrium

Physical Properties of Bohrium

Regulatory / Health

  • CAS Number
    • 54037-14-8
  • NFPA 704
    • Health:
    • Fire:
    • Reactivity:
    • Special Hazard: Radioactive<
    • OSHA Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL)
      • No limits set by OSHA
    • OSHA PEL Vacated 1989
      • No limits set by OSHA
    • NIOSH Recommended Exposure Limit (REL)
      • No limits set by NIOSH
    • Levels In Humans:
      Note: this data represents naturally occuring levels of elements in the typical human, it DOES NOT represent recommended daily allowances.
      • Blood/mg dm-3: nil
      • Bone/p.p.m: nil
      • Liver/p.p.m: nil
      • Muscle/p.p.m: nil
      • Daily Dietary Intake: nil
      • Total Mass In Avg. 70kg human: nil

    Who / Where / When / How

    • Discoverer: Soviet scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
    • Discovery Location: Dubna, USSR
    • Discovery Year: 1975
    • Name Origin:
      Named in honor of the Danish physicist Niels Bohr
    • Abundance of Bohrium:
      • Earth's Crust/p.p.m.: nil
      • Seawater/p.p.m.: nil
      • Atmosphere/p.p.m.: nil
      • Sun (Relative to H=1E12): N/A
    • Sources of Bohrium:
      Synthetically by bombarding Bi204 with heavy nuclei of CR54.
    • Uses of Bohrium:
      None
    • Additional Notes:
      In 1975 Soviet scientists in Dubna were able to synthesize element 107 which then existed for only 2/1000's of a second. Physicists at the Heavy Ion Research Laboratory in Darmstadt West Germany confirmed this discovery in 1981 by synthesizing and identifying six nuclei of the element. In August of 1997 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced the official naming of this element as Bohrium. Like many elements, the discovery date for this element varies from reference source to reference source. We speculate that this is caused by academic and geo-political rivalries.

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