Bohrium is a synthetic element that was created in 1981 by German scientists Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenber. Soviet scientists had synthesized an isotope of bohrium in 1976. Bohrium was named after physicist Niels Bohr, and its original proposed name was Nielsbohrium (symbol Ns).
Bohrium (abbreviated Bh) does not exist in nature, but it is presumed to be a solid at room temperature and to have a metallic and silver-white appearance.
Because bohrium does not exist in nature, it has no commercial or scientific uses.