Transuranic Elements
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| Audience/Grade: | High School Junior - College Sophomore |
| Discipline(s): |
Nuclear Engineering Physics |
| Learning Resource Type: | Community - Ask-an-expert |
| Media Type: | WWW |
| Author(s): | Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA, Keith Welch |
| Description: | Part of Questions and Answers archive of the Jefferson Lab. "Anything with an atomic number greater than 92 (Uranium), is called transuranic. These elements are manmade, but is there a difference in any way besides that? How are these elements created? We generally call the transuranics "man-made" elements because they are normally not found in nature. However, it has been verified that some of these elements are produced and found in nature in very small amounts. It's likely that all of them (and maybe more) exist somewhere in the universe, but the only way to get them in any useful amounts is to make them yourself." |
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| Keywords: | transuranic, americium, plutonium, particle physics, radioactive isotopes, neptunium, radio-isotopes, nuclides, uranium, fission, isotope, radioactive |
| Has Components |
Questions and Answers from the Jefferson Lab |
| Is Component of |
Jefferson Lab Science Education |
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| Use of Resource: | Part of a larger science and technology education website. |
| Difficulty: | Medium |
| Interactivity Level: | Low |
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| Publication Date: | 2008 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://education.jlab.org/qa/transuranic_01.html |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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