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- Curium (chemical symbol Cm, atomic number 96) is a radioactive, metallic, transuranic element "Transuranic elements" are the chemical ...10 KB (1,354 words) - 06:46, 12 January 2024
- Fermium (chemical symbol Fm, atomic number 100) is a synthetic element in the periodic table. A highly radioactive metallic transuranic element ...7 KB (998 words) - 17:26, 26 March 2024
- Americium (chemical symbol Am, atomic number 95) is a radioactive, synthetic metallic element, classified as an actinide. It was the fourth transuranic ...9 KB (1,328 words) - 06:50, 25 July 2023
- Francium (chemical symbol Fr, atomic number 87) is a radioactive metal found in minute amounts in uranium and thorium ores. Although many isotopes ...6 KB (795 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- Berkelium (chemical symbol Bk, atomic number 97) is a synthetic, radioactive chemical element, classified as an actinide. It was first synthesized ...7 KB (911 words) - 11:01, 28 September 2023
- Californium (chemical symbol Cf, atomic number 98) is a chemical element in the periodic table. A radioactive transuranic element, ...11 KB (1,466 words) - 18:27, 25 November 2023
- Geochronology is the science of determining the absolute ages of rocks, fossils, and sediments found on Earth. This field of science relies on ...10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:51, 18 April 2024
- Polonium (chemical symbol Po, atomic number 84) is a rare, extremely toxic, and highly radioactive chemical element. It is found in small amounts ...11 KB (1,554 words) - 08:39, 24 November 2022
- Bismuth (chemical symbol Bi, atomic number 83) is a brittle, white crystalline metal with a pink tinge. It acquires an iridescent oxide tarnish ...14 KB (1,891 words) - 17:59, 31 October 2023
- Promethium (chemical symbol Pm, atomic number 61) is a metallic element that is a member of the lanthanide series of chemical elements. All of ...11 KB (1,429 words) - 23:55, 1 December 2022
- <!-- comment out. Rn-220? {{Elementbox_isotopes_decay | mn=222 | sym=Rn | na=syn | hl=55.6 s | dm=Alpha | de=6.404 | pn=216 | ps=Po }} ...15 KB (2,200 words) - 22:50, 7 December 2022
- large fissile atomic nucleus (usually uranium-235 or plutonium-239) is struck ... to cause fission when colliding with a uranium-235 nucleus. Light water reactors ...49 KB (7,262 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- If a sample of material decays at a certain rate over time, its half-life is defined as the time it takes for the sample to decay to half its ...8 KB (1,160 words) - 16:04, 3 August 2023
- on Earth is a by-product of fission of uranium-235 in nuclear reactors and ... fission of a gram of the rare isotope uranium-235 in nuclear reactors yields ...43 KB (6,283 words) - 22:03, 13 January 2024
- Lake Baikal ( о́зеро Байка́л Ozero Baykal , ˈozʲɪrə bʌjˈkɑl , Байгал нуур Baygal nuur ) sits in Southern Siberia ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- Einsteinium (chemical symbol Es, atomic number 99) is a synthetic element in the periodic table. A metallic, highly radioactive, transuranic element ...7 KB (940 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- are some of the nuclear fission products of both uranium-235 and plutonium-239, and therefore used as indicators of nuclear explosions. ...13 KB (1,905 words) - 14:16, 20 May 2023
- chains that begin from uranium-238 (238U), uranium-235 (235U), and thorium-232 (232Th), respectively. The corresponding half-lives of these decay processes ...18 KB (2,664 words) - 18:43, 25 October 2022
- Leó Szilárd (Hungarian: Szilárd Leó) (February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-American physicist who conceived of the nuclear ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- Glenn Theodore Seaborg (April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of ...29 KB (4,299 words) - 07:54, 24 January 2023
