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Facts About Plutonium and Gadolinium


Facts About Gadolinium and Plutonium


Facts

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.
  
  • Gadolinium is not found free in nature, hence it is not a native metal.
  • Gadolinium metal found in minerals like Monazite and Bastnaesite.
  

Sources
Mining, Ores of metals   
Found in Minerals, Mining   

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Glenn T. Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph W. Kennedy, Edwin McMillan   
Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac   

Discovery
In Between 1940 1941   
In 1880   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
Not Available   
2 * 10-7 %   
22

Abundance In Sun
~-9999 %   
~0.0000002 %   
25

Abundance In Meteorites
Not Available   
0.00 %   
34

Abundance In Earth's Crust
Not Available   
0.00 %   
30

Abundance In Oceans
Not Available   
0.00 %   
38

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