Facts About Lawrencium and Plutonium
Interesting Facts
- It is synthetically produced metal.
- Radiation hazard can be produce by it.
- 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
Bombarding Californium-252 with Boron Nuclei, Found in Minerals, Mining
Mining, Ores of metals
Who Discovered
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Glenn T. Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph W. Kennedy, Edwin McMillan
Discovery
In 1961–1971
In Between 1940 1941