lawrencium
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a radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium
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Eleven isotopes of lawrencium are currently known; the most stable is 262 Lr with a half-life of 3.6 hours, but the shorter-lived 260 Lr (half-life 2.7 minutes) is most commonly used in chemistry because it can be produced on a larger scale.
All but one of the actinides are f-block elements, corresponding to the filling of the 5f electron shell ; lawrencium, a d-block element, is also generally considered an actinide.
Lutetium (Lu) and lawrencium (Lr) occupy the two positions below yttrium.
In 1971, the IUPAC granted the discovery of lawrencium to the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, even though they did not have ideal data for the element's existence.
It was found that lawrencium coextracted with the trivalent ions, but the short half-life of the 256 Lr isotope precluded a confirmation that it eluted ahead of Md 3+ in the elution sequence.
Chemical element number 103 was named lawrencium in his honor after its discovery at Berkeley in 1961.