Actinides in the periodic table The actinide (/ˈæktɪnaɪd/) or actinoid (/ˈæktɪnɔɪd/) series encompasses at least the 14 metallic chemical elements in the...
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Actinide chemistry (or actinoid chemistry) is one of the main branches of nuclear chemistry that investigates the processes and molecular systems of the...
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The actinide series is a group of chemical elements with atomic numbers ranging from 89 to 102, including notable elements such as uranium and plutonium...
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Major actinides is a term used in the nuclear power industry that refers to the isotopes of plutonium (239 Pu) uranium (235 U, 238 U) and thorium (232...
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A minor actinide is an actinide, other than uranium or plutonium, found in spent nuclear fuel. The minor actinides include neptunium (element 93), americium...
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In nuclear chemistry, the actinide concept (also known as actinide hypothesis) proposed that the actinides form a second inner transition series homologous...
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Mendelevium (category Actinides)
atomic number 101. A metallic radioactive transuranium element in the actinide series, it is the first element by atomic number that currently cannot...
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Period 7 element (section Actinides)
uranium. All elements of period 7 are radioactive. This period contains the actinides, which includes plutonium, the naturally occurring element with the heaviest...
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Polyommatus actinides actinides (Zaalaisky Mountains) Polyommatus actinides praeactinides (Forster, 1960) (western Tian-Shan) Polyommatus actinides weidenhofferi...
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Superheavy element (redirect from Beyond the actinides)
104. The superheavy elements are those beyond the actinides in the periodic table; the last actinide is lawrencium (atomic number 103). By definition,...
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Nuclear fuel cycle (section Minor actinides recycling)
staying subcritical. The actinides will be mixed with a metal which will not form more actinides; for instance, an alloy of actinides in a solid such as zirconia...
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Los Alamos National Laboratory (redirect from Actinide Research Quarterly)
published by LANL: National Security Science 1663 Community Connections Actinide Research Quarterly @theBradbury Physical Sciences Vistas LANL also published...
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Morss; Edelstein, Norman M.; Fuger, Jean (eds.). The Chemistry of the Actinide and Transactinide Elements (3rd ed.). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer...
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Berkelium (category Actinides)
element; it has symbol Bk and atomic number 97. It is a member of the actinide and transuranium element series. It is named after the city of Berkeley...
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Area 27 (Nevada National Security Site) (redirect from Joint Actinide Shock Physics Experimental Research)
Kukla is now entombed in place at Area 27. Area 27 is home to the Joint Actinide Shock Physics Experimental Research (JASPER) Facility. JASPER uses a two-stage...
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Californium (category Actinides)
Laboratory) by bombarding curium with alpha particles (helium-4 ions). It is an actinide element, the sixth transuranium element to be synthesized, and has the...
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Americium (category Actinides)
and atomic number 95. It is radioactive and a transuranic member of the actinide series in the periodic table, located under the lanthanide element europium...
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Neptunium (category Actinides)
chemical element; it has symbol Np and atomic number 93. A radioactive actinide metal, neptunium is the first transuranic element. It is named after Neptune...
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Thorium (category Actinides)
malleable and has a high melting point. Thorium is an electropositive actinide whose chemistry is dominated by the +4 oxidation state; it is quite reactive...
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Properties of the 𝑓-Elements and Their Compounds. I. The Lanthanide and Actinide Metals". Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data. doi:10.1063/1...
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Nuclear fuel (redirect from Actinide fuel)
known as the nuclear fuel cycle. Most nuclear fuels contain heavy fissile actinide elements that are capable of undergoing and sustaining nuclear fission...
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table was reached in 1945 with Glenn T. Seaborg's discovery that the actinides were in fact f-block rather than d-block elements. The periodic table...
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Uranium (category Actinides)
it has symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-grey metal in the actinide series of the periodic table. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons...
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Lawrencium (category Actinides)
transuranium element, the third transfermium, and the last member of the actinide series. Like all elements with atomic number over 100, lawrencium can only...
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Nobelium (category Actinides)
element, the second transfermium, and is the penultimate member of the actinide series. Like all elements with atomic number over 100, nobelium can only...
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Group 3 element (redirect from Group number of lanthanides and actinides)
scandium and yttrium, or if it also contains all the lanthanides and actinides; either way, this format contradicts quantum physics by creating a 15-element-wide...
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Curium (category Actinides)
chemical element; it has symbol Cm and atomic number 96. This transuranic actinide element was named after eminent scientists Marie and Pierre Curie, both...
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Einsteinium (category Actinides)
atomic number 99. It is named after Albert Einstein and is a member of the actinide series and is the seventh transuranium element. Einsteinium was discovered...
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Fermium (category Actinides)
synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Fm and atomic number 100. It is an actinide and the heaviest element that can be formed by neutron bombardment of lighter...
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organoactinide compounds, which are organometallic compounds containing a carbon to actinide chemical bond. Like most organometallic compounds, the organoactinides...
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