Appearance and Characteristics
Harmful effects:
Einsteinium is harmful due to its radioactivity.
Characteristics:
Einsteinium is a synthetic, highly radioactive metal that has only been produced in tiny amounts. It is the first divalent metal in the actinide series (two bonding electrons rather than three). (3b)
Uses of Einsteinium
Einsteinium is of research interest only.
In 1955 einsteinium-253 was used to create mendelevium for the first time. Less than a picogram of einsteinium-253 was bombarded with alpha particles in Berkeley’s 150-centimeter cyclotron. (4)