protactinium in English

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the chemical element of atomic number 91, a radioactive metal of the actinide series, occurring in small amounts as a product of the natural decay of uranium.
Along the way, these disintegration series produce radioactive isotopes of protactinium , thorium, actinium, radium, francium, radon, astatine, polonium, bismuth, lead, thallium and mercury.
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1. Because of its scarcity, high radioactivity and high toxicity, there are currently no uses for protactinium outside scientific research, and for this purpose, protactinium is mostly extracted from spent nuclear fuel.

2. The Actinides is the collective name given to elements 90-103 in the periodic table, comprising thorium, protactinium, uranium, neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and lawrencium

3. Actinides are elements with atomic numbers from 90 to 103 following element Actinium. They include naturally occurring elements of thorium, protactinium and uranium and eleven transuranic i.e., artificially produced by nuclear reactions