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Plutonium
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is a radioactive metallic element. Although it is occasionally
found in nature, mostly all of our is produced artificially in a lab.
The official chemical symbol for is Pu, coming from its first and
third letters. Its atomic number is ninety-four. is able to maintain
its solid state until very high temperatures, melting at six hundre .... Middle of paper
.... into plutonium.
Shortly after, Seaborg was able to isolate plutonium 239, an isotope used in
atomic bombs.
Plutonium is a highly dangerous and poisonous element because it rapidly
gives off radiation in the form of alpha particles. Alpha particles, which are
identical to the nucleus of a helium atom, consist of two protons and two
neutrons tightly bound together. Although the particles can only travel about
five centimeters in the air, they ....
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