Facts About Dubnium and Plutonium
Interesting Facts
- IUPAC allotted a temporary name to Dubnium metal as “ Unnilpentium”.
- In the production of Dubnium, thermal gradient chromatography is used.
- 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
Produced by Bombarding Am243 with Ne22, Synthetically Produced
Mining, Ores of metals
Who Discovered
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Glenn T. Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph W. Kennedy, Edwin McMillan
Discovery
In 1968
In Between 1940 1941