Facts About Plutonium and Californium
Interesting Facts
- Plutonium metal if obtain from ores of uranium metal.
- Plutonium metal is very sensitive to the change in atmospheric conditions like temperature and pressure.
- Californium metal is very harmful and highly radioactive.
- Californium metal is the heaviest metal.
Sources
Mining, Ores of metals
Made by Bombarding Curium with Helium Ions
Who Discovered
Glenn T. Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph W. Kennedy, Edwin McMillan
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Discovery
In Between 1940 1941
In 1950