What is the atomic number of element Einsteinium?

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 10 February 2021

What is the atomic number of element Einsteinium?

A. 66

B. 77

C. 88

D. 99

Explanation:

A team of scientists at the Berkeley Lab has reported some of the properties of element 99 in the periodic table called “Einsteinium”, named after Albert Einstein. It was discovered in 1952 in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb (the detonation of a thermonuclear device called “Ivy Mike” in the Pacific Ocean).

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