April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
5h 20m
English

Those man-made transuranics, all so bulky, all decay,
Beware Pu, the “Fat Man” who could blast us clean away!
Am helps sniff out smoke so fine,
Venture beyond uranium on the periodic table and you enter the realm of the transuranium (transuranic) elements—the “heavyweights” of the periodic table. All transuranium elements are synthesized in nuclear reactors or particle accelerators,32 have high atomic masses, and are radioactively unstable ...