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eppur_se_muova

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1. It *still* blows my mind to read about KILOGRAMS of Americium and Curium.

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Thu Jan 23, 2025, 02:54 PM

Jan 2025

This is what I still think of when I think of the heavier actinides -- first isolation of macroscopic samples during the Manhattan Project. Two spaces of the Periodic Table were filled by *classified* wartime discoveries !

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It *still* blows my mind to read about KILOGRAMS of Americium and Curium. eppur_se_muova Jan 2025 #1

I'm particularly interested in ton quantities of americium, since americium has an interesting property when used... NNadir Jan 2025 #2