Fermium
Fm
100
257
1s22s22p63s23p63d104s24p64d104f14
5s25p65d105f126s26p67s2
Biological significance

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Excess in the body

➤ Leads to damage to renal structures and characteristic factors of negative effects on the cardiovascular and nervous systems.

Deficiency in the body

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Drugs/dose

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Conventional medicine

➤ For research purposes, Fm isotopes are used to ensure the quality of X-ray material, which will improve diagnostics and develop a patient treatment plan.

Unconventional medicine

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Toxic effect/antidote

➤ Causes CNS disorders, resulting in pharyngeal reflex and vertigo.


➤ Antidote: Symptomatic therapy.

Interesting facts

➤ The element 257Fm is named in honor of the prominent Italian physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Nobel Prize winner, 1938, for his research on neutron processes.

➤ The 258Fm isotope has a half-life of 380 millionths of a second.

➤ The largest amount of Fm ever produced by anyone is 5 billion atoms, which decreased by more than 3 thousand times in 3 years as a result of radioactive decay.

Chemist Albert Hoffmann
about how he opened Fermium

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