NOUN
- any element having an atomic number greater than 92 (which is the atomic number of uranium); all are radioactive
How To Use transuranic element In A Sentence
- This is the first record of the production of synthetic elements, known as transuranic elements.
- Atomic number 101 is a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles.
- Used fuel is about 95% uranium-238 but it also contains up to 1% uranium-235 that has not fissioned, about 1% plutonium and 3% fission products, which are highly radioactive, with other transuranic elements formed in the reactor. Nuclear fuel cycle
- It finishes with a chronology of metal discoveries through to the transuranic elements.
- Radon is a naturally occurring colourless, odourless gas that is emitted from rocks containing minerals rich in the transuranic elements.
- Berkelium is a transuranic element, with an atomic number of 97 and an atomic mass of 274.0703.
- The first genuine transuranic element was discovered at Berkeley, where Edwin McMillan used Lawrence's cyclotron in 1939 to bombard uranium with slow neutrons.
- Synthesis of the heavier transuranic elements, as well as of radioisotopes of the natural elements, is sometimes included under the broader umbrella of chemical synthesis.
- Radon is a naturally occurring colourless, odourless gas that is emitted from rocks containing minerals rich in the transuranic elements.
- Synthesis of the heavier transuranic elements, as well as of radioisotopes of the natural elements, is sometimes included under the broader umbrella of chemical synthesis.