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- Hafnium metal is highly reactive, hence not found free in nature.
- Hafnium metal as predicated after Mendeleev finished his periodic table.
By-product Zirconium Refining
Dirk Coster and George de Hevesy
- Einsteinium is the transuranic element found in US.
- Only 0.01 mg of Einsteinium was synthesized in 1961.
Made by Bombarding Uranium with Neutrons
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory