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- Promethium metal found in Pitchblende.
- Promethium metal is highly radioactive metal.
Found in Minerals, Mining
Chien Shiung Wu, Emilio Segrè, Hans Bethe
- Hafnium metal is highly reactive, hence not found free in nature.
- Hafnium metal as predicated after Mendeleev finished his periodic table.
By-product Zirconium Refining
Dirk Coster and George de Hevesy