Biomimetic adsorbent efficiently extracts uranium from seawater
The oceans hold an enormous amount of very diluted uranium that could potentially serve as a sustainable fuel source for ...
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Dangerous Water
Heavy water is a form of water with a unique atomic structure and properties coveted ... help keep such a chain reaction going. As each uranium atom breaks apart, it shoots out neutrons that ...
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The first atomic bomb is detonated
They began to suspect that Fermi hadn't created a new element at all but might have actually split the uranium atom in two -- at that point a barely imaginable event. Before they could confirm ...
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US’ new radioactive molecule discovery challenges periodic table post uranium
It features a berkelium atom sandwiched between two eight-membered carbon rings. This symmetrical structure was confirmed ...
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UB, Berkeley Lab scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule ‘berkelocene’
The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...