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