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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http://www.livescience.com/39871-facts-about-plutonium.html
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