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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.
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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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Bohrium was named after the great scientist, Niels Bohr.
Do you think that any scientist can have the honor of having an element named after them? In your opinion, what are the goals that a scientist needs to achieve in order to have their name proposed for a new element?
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