Interesting facts about plutonium

Plutonium has many different things not commonly known by the general populous.  One interesting fact is that plutonium was actually named after the planet Pluto.  This was because of a trend that had been set of naming elements after planets proportional to distance to the sun.  This trend began with the planet Uranus which was the naming basis for Uranium, then there was Neptune which was the naming bases for neptunium, and finally the good old Pluto naming basis for Plutonium.

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Physical Properties of Plutonium

Plutonium has a density of 19.84g.cm^-3 at 20degreesC.  The melting point of plutonium is 641degreesC and a boiling point of 3232degreesC.  Plutonium also has a silvery appearance that when exposed to O2 takes on a more yellow appearance.


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Who discovered Plutonium

Plutonium was discovered in 1941 by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, Edwin McMillan, Kennedy, and Whal.  They discovered the element in their lab while bombarding some Uranium with deutrons.  After they discovered the element they decided to name it Plutonium after pluto.  

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How Plutonium was discovered

          Plutonium was discovered in 1941 shortly after the discovery of Neptunium (named after the planet Neptune) in a nuclear research lab after some Uranium was being bombarded by deuteron.  This was done in a 60-inch cyclotron in Berkeley radiation lab at the University of California.  The discovery was kept secret for some time and the element was named plutonium after the planet pluto.

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Where to find Reactorium(plutonium)

     The element Plutonium is mostly found in trace amount within Uranium deposits. To get these trace amounts out of the Uranium deposits you must burn Uranium in a nuclear reactor and extract the bi-product.  Plutonium is also very rarely found in nature in isotopes.

 
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The Element Reactorium

The element that is being covered throughout this blog is the elements known as plutonium (Pu).

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