Part one of term paper
is a radioactive metallic element. Although it is occasionally found in nature, mostly all of our is produced artificially in a lab. The official chemical symbol for is Pu, coming from its first and third letters. Its atomic number is ninety-four. is able to maintain its solid state until very high temperatures, melting at six hundred and ...

Part two of term paper
... their discoveries of Plutonium, Americium (Am), Curium (Cm), Berkelium (Bk), and Californium (Cf). In addition, Seaborg later contributed to the discovery of three more radioactive elements, Einsteinium (Es), Mendelevium (Md), and Nobelium (No). Plutonium was Seaborg’s first discovery. Its name came from Pluto, the planet after Neptune for which Neptunium was named. In 1940, at the University of California at Berkeley, he bombarded a sample of Uranium with deuterons, the nuclei in atoms of de ...