Facts About Plutonium and Fermium
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.
- Fermium metal is highly radioactive in nature.
- Fermium is synthetically produced metal.
Sources
Mining, Ores of metals
Bombarding Pu-239 with Neutrons
Who Discovered
Glenn T. Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph W. Kennedy, Edwin McMillan
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Discovery
In Between 1940 1941
In 1952