Expose a silvery piece of plutonium to air and it tarnishes, developing a patina that looks yellow or green, depending on the sample. For many years, scientists thought that this unpredictable film ...
INFORMATION on the allotropy of plutonium is available from several laboratories 1,2. There is general agreement about the behaviour of specimens undergoing changes of heat content at the rates ...
A new method developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory proves one effort’s trash is another’s valuable isotope. One of the byproducts of the Department of Energy lab’s national plutonium-238 ...
LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Scientists have solved a question about the nature of plutonium that has remained a mystery since the Manhattan Project. Plutonium behaves like no other element in nature. The ...
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