Meitnerium is element 109, a transition metal of the d block, in group 9, period 7. Its ground-state configuration is [Rn] 5f14 6d7 7s2, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0.
It was discovered in 1982.
Name origin: Lise Meitner, physicist.
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