Article
Article
Transuranium elements
Article By:
Schädel, Matthias GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Kernchemie, Darmstadt, Germany.
Armbruster, Peter J. Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, mbH, Germany.
Seaborg, Glenn T. Formerly, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California. Nobelist.
Last reviewed:July 2018
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.706800
Show previous versions
- Transuranium elements, published June 2014:Download PDF
Get Adobe Acrobat Reader
Those synthetic elements with atomic numbers higher than that of uranium (atomic number 92). They are the members of the actinide series, from neptunium (atomic number 93) through lawrencium (atomic number 103), and the transactinide elements (with atomic numbers higher than 103). Of these elements, plutonium, an explosive ingredient in nuclear weapons and a fuel for nuclear power because it is fissionable, has been prepared on the largest (ton) scale, while some of the others have been produced in kilograms (neptunium, americium, curium) and in much smaller quantities (berkelium, californium, and einsteinium).
The content above is only an excerpt.
About AccessScience
AccessScience provides the most accurate and trustworthy scientific information available.
Recognized as an award-winning gateway to scientific knowledge, AccessScience is an amazing online resource that contains high-quality reference material written specifically for students. Contributors include more than 10,000 highly qualified scientists and 46 Nobel Prize winners.
MORE THAN 8700 articles covering all major scientific disciplines and encompassing the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology
115,000-PLUS definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
3000 biographies of notable scientific figures
MORE THAN 19,000 downloadable images and animations illustrating key topics
ENGAGING VIDEOS highlighting the life and work of award-winning scientists
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY and additional readings to guide students to deeper understanding and research
LINKS TO CITABLE LITERATURE help students expand their knowledge using primary sources of information
