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Plutonium
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is a radioactive metallic element. Although it is occasionally
found in nature, mostly all of our is produced artificially in a lab.
The official chemical symbol for is Pu, coming from its first and
third letters. Its atomic number is ninety .... Middle of Term Paper
... Einsteinium (Es), Mendelevium (Md), and
Nobelium (No). Plutonium was Seaborg’s first discovery. Its name came from
Pluto, the planet after Neptune for which Neptunium was named. In 1940, at the
University of California at Berkeley, he bombarded a sample of Uranium with
deuterons, the nuclei in atoms of deuterium, transmuting it into plutonium.
Shortly after, Seaborg was able to isolate plutonium 239, an isotope used in
atomic bombs.
Plutonium is a highly dangerous and poisonous element because it rapidly
gives off radiation in the form of alpha particles. Alpha particles, which are
identical to the nucleus of a helium atom, consist o ... |
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