PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY JUMP SEARCH BANNER NAVIGATION SITE FOOTER SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE THE RESEARCH LIBRARY PHONE LANL CHEMISTRY DIVISION PERIODIC TABLE THE PERIODIC TABLE HOW TO ELEMENTS CHEMICAL PROPERTIES UNEXPECTED OXIDATION STATE MOLECULAR PLUTONIUM QUANTUM DOT SOLAR WINDOWS TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL GLOWING SPHERE SIMILAR TO THE ONE USED TO POWER CASSINI ATOMIC ATOMIC RADIUS ATOMIC SYMBOL MELTING POINT C ATOMIC WEIGHT BOILING POINT ELECTRON CONFIGURATION OXIDATION STATES TRANSURANIUM ELEMENT ACTINIDE SERIES ELEMENT 93 DISCOVERED GLENN EDWIN WAHL DEUTERON BOMBARDMENT CYCLOTRON THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY LAB FIRST SYNTHESIZED SUBSEQUENTLY ELEMENT ATOMIC NUMBER ELEMENT 94 THE NEXT PLANETOID PLUTO PRECEDENCE URANIUM THE PLANET URANUS SUBMITTED PAPER THE JOURNAL PHYSICAL REVIEW MARCH 1941 THE PAPER QUICKLY ISOTOPE UNDERGO NUCLEAR FISSION USEFUL FISSION GREATER THAN THE BEST THAT TIME AWAY BERKELEY LEAD PRODUCTION LAB THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO THE MET WAS TO PRODUCE THE SECRET MANHATTAN PROJECT WORLD WAR II DEVELOP TRACE QUANTITY MEASURED THE FIRST TIME MICROGRAMS FISSION PRODUCTS MICROGRAM THIS WAS ENOUGH MATERIAL CHEMISTS DETERMINE NOVEMBER 1943 MILLIGRAMS PUF3 REDUCED CREATE SAMPLE MAKE IT THE FIRST MAN VISIBLE UNAIDED EYE NUCLEAR PROPERTIES RESEARCHERS NEUTRON ENERGY NEUTRONS NEIGHBORING ATOMS SO ON FAST TREMENDOUS AMOUNT EXPLOSION LARGE ENOUGH DESTROY FUEL WW II PRIMARY RESEARCH THE MANHATTAN PROJECT FACILITY HANFORD SITE URANIUM ENRICHMENT WEAPONS RESEARCH DESIGN REACTOR GRAPHITE REACTOR TENNESSEE THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY CONDUCTED NEW MEXICO LOS ALAMOS LABORATORY DIRECTOR ROBERT OPPENHEIMER ARMY GENERAL LESLIE GROVES FIRST ATOMIC BOMB EQUIVALENT TONS OF TNT WAR CORE JAPAN ATOMIC BOMB NICKNAMED ROUND IN AUGUST PUBLICATION THE DISCOVERY NAMING DELAYED AFTER THE END WORLD WAR NAME THOUGHT SOUND GOOD THE SOVIET UNION THE UNITED TONS NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY AS OF STOCKPILE THE END THE COLD WAR FOCUS NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION THE UNITED STATES THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION TO EACH DISPOSE WEAPON GRADE CONVERTING MIXED OXIDE COMMERCIAL NUCLEAR POWER TODAY REMAINS COMPONENT SUPPORT NATIONAL DEFENSE GLOBAL NUCLEAR DETERRENCE CIVILIAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS VITAL SPACE EXPLORATION LIMITS BEYOND MANNED SPACE EXPLORATION POSSIBLE QUEST ISOTOPES RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES NUMBERS NINE EXHIBIT LESS THAN ONE MILLION YEARS LESS THAN PRIMARY DECAY MODES SPONTANEOUS FISSION FORMING DECAY PRODUCTS VARIETY DAUGHTER DECAY MODE HIGHER AMERICIUM PARENT ISOTOPE NEPTUNIUM DECAY SERIES GREATEST IMPORTANCE EXTENSIVE QUANTITIES NUCLEAR REACTORS NATURAL URANIUM 238U PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS DISCUSSED UNIQUE PHYSICOCHEMICAL VIRTUE POSITION LOCATION ELECTRONS THE BORDER DELOCALIZED BEHAVIOR COMPLEX SITS JUNCTURE TRANSITIONS RARE EARTH ACTINIDE DEFENSE METAL BRIGHT SILVERY APPEARANCE TAKES DULL YELLOW OLIVE GREEN TARNISH PIECE TUCH THE ENERGY ALPHA DECAY PIECES HEAT BOIL THE METAL CONCENTRATED MINERAL ACIDS NORMALLY ALLOTROPES CRYSTAL ALPHA BETA GAMMA DELTA PRIME EPSILON SEVENTH PHASE HIGH TEMPERATURE LIMITED PRESSURE ENERGY LEVELS DENSITIES SENSITIVE CHANGES VOLUME PHASE TRANSITIONS ROOM TEMPERATURE COMMON STRUCTURAL HARD BRITTLE IRON UNLESS ALLOYED OTHER METALS SOFT CONDUCTOR OF HEAT HIGH RING PURE ALLOYS SCANDIUM CERIUM STABILIZE NUCLEAR FUEL PELLETS ALLOYING METALS FAST BREEDER ALLOY UNCONVENTIONAL SUPERCONDUCTOR SHOWING SUPERCONDUCTIVITY BELOW ORDER OF MAGNITUDE HIGHEST HEAVY FERMION SYSTEMS REACTS PUO2 THE HALOGENS RISE THE GENERAL FORMULA TETRAVALENT CARBON NITROGEN SILICON OXALATES INTERMEDIATES CALCINED OXIDES STEP IN ACETYLACETONE THE COLOR DISPLAYED DEPENDS EXTENT COMPLEXATION AQUEOUS SOLUTION IONIC VALENCE GREEN BASIC SOLUTION PENTAVALENT UNSTABLE AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS DISPROPORTIONATES RANGE CLOSE ELECTRODE POTENTIALS THE VARIOUS REDOX COUPLES IN SOLUTION SIMULTANEOUSLY ALL IN PERCHLORIC ACID EXCEPT STRONG BASE HOBART LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LAB CATION LARGEST ELECTRONIC CHARGE IONS INORGANIC ORGANIC ANIONIC IONIC CHARGE HYDROLYZES HYDROXIDE ION VALUES COLLOIDAL SUSPENSION SOLUTION ACTUALLY SOLID PRECIPITATE TRIBUTYL PHOSPHATE ACID HDEHP PRIMORDIAL ELEMENT IN EXISTENCE STABLE ISOTOPE WHOSE 80 MILLION SPECTROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS PRECAMBRIAN BASTNASITE HOFFMAN CONFIRMED PRESENCE THE EXISTENCE EXTINCT RADIOACTIVE ELEMENT POSTULATED EXPLAIN XENON RATIOS INDICATION PRESENT EXISTENCE NATURALLY OCCURRING URANIUM ORES MUCH THE SAME MANNER IRRADIATION BETA DECAY ATTRIBUTED RARE NEUTRON ACTIVATION NATURAL OKLO NATURAL REACTOR NUCLEAR REACTIONS PROCESS CONVERT REACTION BOMBARDING DEUTERONS DISCOVERY USES THE POSITION DOMINANT TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS EXPLOSIVE INGREDIENT NUCLEAR WEAPONS THE PLACE HOLDS DEVELOPMENT OF FRACTION BINDING ENERGY NUCLEUS ELECTROMAGNETIC KINETIC ENERGY CONVERTED THERMAL ENERGY KILOWATT HOURS CHEMICAL PROCESS PUREX SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL EXTRACT BE USED TO REUSE MOX FUEL MECHANISM REDUCE FORGING PLOWSHARES RADIOACTIVE DECAY DECAY HEAT PRODUCTION RATE SERVICE LIFE THE DECAY MILLIWATT RADIOISOTOP