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Plutonium.
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Harsh Mungala MYP Assessment: Glenis Goodman Introducing an Element 10th grade Chemistry 11/10/2003 Plutonium Plutonium is a radioactive metallic element. It is found occasionally found in nature. Although, most of the time it is artificially produced in laboratories. The official chemical symbol for plutonium is "Pu", coming from its first and third letter of its full name. It has a atomic number of 94 and an atomic weight of [244] and it belongs to the Actinide Series. It has a very strange electron configuration of 2,8,18,32,24,8,2. Plutonium has a very high melting point of 620oC and an extremely high boiling point of 3460oC. The density of Plutonium, at twenty degrees centigrade, is 1986 grams per cubic centimeter. Plutonium was discovered, in the laboratory, by Glenn Theodore Seaborg, and his assistant Edward M. McMillan. The two shared the Nobel prize in 1951 for their investigations on Plutonium (Pu) and discoveries of Americium (Am), Curium (Cm),...
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