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Facts About Zirconium and Plutonium


Facts About Plutonium and Zirconium


Facts

Interesting Facts
  • Zirconium metal can resist to weak acids.
  • Zirconium metal reacts with oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere.
  
  • Plutonium metal if obtain from ores of uranium metal.
  • Plutonium metal is very sensitive to the change in atmospheric conditions like temperature and pressure.
  

Sources
Found in Minerals, Mining, Ores of Minerals   
Mining, Ores of metals   

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Martin Heinrich Klaproth   
Glenn T. Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph W. Kennedy, Edwin McMillan   

Discovery
In 1789   
In Between 1940 1941   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
5 * 10-6 %   
13
Not Available   

Abundance In Sun
~0.000004 %   
16
~-9999 %   

Abundance In Meteorites
0.00 %   
17
Not Available   

Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.01 %   
14
Not Available   

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
23
Not Available   

Abundance In Humans
0.00 %   
15
Not Available   

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