Fermium Fm · 100
solid metal · period 7 · f-block· actinide
Anatomy
Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Fermium
History of the character
Every form found in the sources, from the first missionary chemistry books of the 1850s to the current standards. Hover a dot for the source. Simplified 镄, traditional 鐨.
- 1991 鐨 fèi 化學名詞 Chemical Terms, China National Committee for Terms in Sciences and Technologies (全國科學技術名詞審定委員會)inferred Inferred: finalised at the latest in Chemical Terms (1991), which settled every element up to 109.
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Elsewhere
Japanese フェルミウム Korean 페르뮴 Vietnamese fermi
Western name from Italian Fermi, Enrico, “Italian surname”. Compare all
Unicode
U+9544 in CJK Unified Ideographs
Element discovered 1952.