neptunium in Dutch

eptunium [neptjuːniəm] neptunium

Sentence patterns related to "neptunium"

1. Neptunium metal is silvery and tarnishes when exposed to air.

2. In nuclear reactors, neptunium dioxide can also be used as the target metal for plutonium bombardment.

3. Note: 1C012.b. does not control shipments with a neptunium-237 content of 1 g or less.

4. Plutonium also exhibits valence states between 3 and 7 inclusive, and thus is chemically similar to neptunium and uranium.

5. Americium appears to be more malleable than uranium or neptunium and Americium tarnishes slowly in dry air at room temperature

6. This study provides a detailed analysis of the aging process in two closely related, Appendaged bacteria, Hyphomonas neptunium and Caulobacter crescentus

7. Curium is a member of a group of elements, the transuranic elements, that - with the exception of plutonium and neptunium - do not occur naturally on Earth

8. Bohemium was the name assigned to the element with atomic number 93, now known as neptunium, when its discovery was first incorrectly alleged.It was named after Bohemia.

9. Gamma radiation of modest energies, in the low tens of MeV, can induce fission in traditionally fissile elements such as the actinides uranium, plutonium, and neptunium.

10. 237 Np decays via the neptunium series, which terminates with thallium-205, which is stable, unlike most other actinides, which decay to stable isotopes of lead.

11. 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

12. Long-lived radionuclides called "minor actinides" (elements such as neptunium, americium and curium) could be separated from the spent fuel and returned to a dedicated reactor for transmutation.

13. Pure plutonium-238 is prepared by neutron irradiation of neptunium-237, one of the minor actinides that can be recovered from spent nuclear fuel during reprocessing, or by the neutron irradiation of americium in a reactor.

14. ‘The elements that make up this family are also known as the Actinides, after the first member of the family.’ ‘Local magnetism occurs in rare-earth metals (such as gadolinium) and the Actinides (such as neptunium) due to the incomplete filling of electrons in the inner atomic shells.’

15. Although uranium-238 cannot be used for the initial stage of an Atomic bomb, when it absorbs a neutron, it becomes uranium-239 which decays into neptunium-239, and finally the relatively stable plutonium-239, which is fissile like uranium-235.After Fermi achieved the world's first sustained and controlled nuclear chain reaction with the creation of the first Atomic pile, massive reactors were