Facts About Californium and Plutonium
Interesting Facts
- Californium metal is very harmful and highly radioactive.
- Californium metal is the heaviest metal.
- 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
Made by Bombarding Curium with Helium Ions
Mining, Ores of metals
Who Discovered
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Glenn T. Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph W. Kennedy, Edwin McMillan
Discovery
In 1950
In Between 1940 1941