Friday, September 2, 2016

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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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 3, 2016 at 6:15 PM

    So you can only be made in a machine like this?

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  2. UnknownSeptember 6, 2016 at 5:38 AM

    no that plutonium can be created in any machine that breaks down Uranium the most common of which would be a nuclear reactor

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