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why do scientists study and synthesize new transuranium elements in the laboratory? what are the uses od these elements

create a timeline using illustrations and text showing on how elements form with the concept of atomic number


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Transuranic elements are made in the lab because they don’t occur naturally. The “lab” that you’re talking about, however, is a multi-billion-dollar multi-megawatt collider from which a few atoms to maybe a few thousand atoms are separated out and analyzed after a run.

The first transuranium element made was plutonium. It’s fissionable and tons have since been produced. Another element made on an industrial scale is americium, used for detecting gasses in smoke detectors. Others were initially designated for medical treatments (targeted cancer therapies) but have largely been displaced by other cheaper alternatives.

All of the transuranic elements were at first produced a few atoms at a time. Because of their nuclear instability, most still are