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Facts About Bismuth and Plutonium


Facts About Plutonium and Bismuth


Facts

Interesting Facts
  • Bismuth metal is soluble and reacts with concentrated nitric acid.
  • It oxides are used as a yellow pigment in paint. Bismuth chloride oxide BiClO gives a pearly texture to cosmetics.
  
  • Plutonium metal if obtain from ores of uranium metal.
  • Plutonium metal is very sensitive to the change in atmospheric conditions like temperature and pressure.
  

Sources
Found in Minerals, Mining, Ores of Minerals   
Mining, Ores of metals   

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Claude François Geoffroy   
Glenn T. Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph W. Kennedy, Edwin McMillan   

Discovery
In 1753   
In Between 1940 1941   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
7 * 10-8 %   
25
Not Available   

Abundance In Sun
~0.000006 %   
14
~-9999 %   

Abundance In Meteorites
0.00 %   
99+
Not Available   

Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.00 %   
99+
Not Available   

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
24
Not Available   

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