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Bohrium - Periodic Table of Videos

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The team at periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about bohrium. This video includes footage from a trip to Darmstadt where the element was created and named.

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For all the basics about bohrium, check out the Visual Elements Periodic Table.
For amazing photos and facts about bohrium, check out The Elements by Theodore Gray.
In 2000, a team at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Bern (Switzerland) conducted a chemical reaction using atoms of bohrium-267. The study of this reaction placed bohrium as a typical member of group 7.
2 Bh + 3 O2 + 2 HCl → 2 BhO3Cl + H2
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