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Bh bohrium
Atomic 107 ── synthetic_superheavy ── Tier 1
No commercial production

No commercial production.

Bohrium is a research-only transactinide with no mine supply, refining base, reserves, or price series. Its commercial reality is the absence of commerce: laboratories make individual atoms in accelerator campaigns to probe nuclear stability, decay chains, and the chemistry of the superheavy region. [Sources: gsi_new_elements, iupac_transfermium_1997]

The accepted discovery route is GSI Darmstadt's 1981 production of element 107 via chromium-on-bismuth bombardment. IUPAC formalized the name bohrium and symbol Bh in 1997, and IUPAC's present periodic table identifies mass number 270 as the longest-lived confirmed bohrium nuclide. NNDC ENSDF shows a corresponding "270BH A DECAY (1.0 M)" dataset, supporting the one-minute order-of-magnitude lifetime used in this record. [Sources: gsi_new_elements, iupac_transfermium_1997, iupac_periodic_table_2022, nndc_270bh_decay_2019]

No production data
No reserves or end-use data
No price history
No isotope market data

Sources (5)

primary New Elements
GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung • 2025 • retrieved 2026-04-13
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry • 2022 • retrieved 2026-04-13
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry • 1997 • retrieved 2026-04-13
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research • 2025 • retrieved 2026-04-13
National Nuclear Data Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory • 2019 • retrieved 2026-04-13