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Periodic Table of the Elements: Promethium
Periodic Table of the Elements: Promethium
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| Atomic Number:
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61
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| Atomic Symbol:
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Pm
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Promethium
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| Atomic Weight:
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(145)
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| Electron
Configuration:
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2 · 8 · 18
23 · 8 · 2
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Tennessee Inventors Develop Promethium-147 Production Method
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/20/2008; 455 words
; ...have developed a method for producing promethium-147. According to the abstract released...A method of producing and purifying promethium-147 including the steps of: irradiating...neodymium-146 with neutrons to produce promethium-147 within the irradiated target material...
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No Promethium on earth?.(Stress Relief)
Magazine article from: Advanced Materials & Processes; 5/1/2004; 358 words
; ...I must take exception to the answer (actually the question, also) to #3 in Elemental Geography where you assert that Promethium is not found in the crust of the Earth. My late friend, Paul K. Kuroda, and his student Moses Attrep found (in 1968...
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Q&A on Promethium Marketing, spawn of Microsoft downsizing.(Microsoft Blog)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 7/6/2009; 700+ words
; Over on Digital Joystick, a seattlepi.com reader blog, Jacob Metcalf has a Q&A with Nelson Rodriguez of Promethium Marketing, one of the first start-ups spawned by the recent downsizings at Microsoft. Rodriguez and two other former...
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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Tennessee (Oct. 20)
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 10/20/2008; 700+ words
; ...Tennessee Inventors Develop Promethium-147 Production MethodALEXANDRIA...have developed a method for producing promethium-147.According to the abstract released...A method of producing and purifying promethium-147 including the steps of: irradiating...
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Obituaries
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/14/2005; 519 words
; ...scientists who discovered the element promethium, died Sept. 1 at his home in Buffalo...Glendenin and Charles Coryell isolated promethium, 61 on the periodic table, a radioactive...element and byproduct of uranium fission. Promethium salts light up in the dark with a pale...
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ASK DR. KNOWLEDGE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/24/2005; 578 words
; ...likely here since its origin, except promethium, with 61 protons. If there ever was any promethium on our planet, it has long since decayed...plutonium on Earth less one because of promethium, for a total of 93. If you think of...
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Obituaries in the News
News Wire article from: AP Online; 9/9/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Glendenin and Charles Coryell isolated promethium, a radioactive element and byproduct of uranium fission. Promethium salts light up in the dark with a...high radioactivity. Commercially, promethium was used in objects like watch dials...
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Nuclear web gauging; keeps pace with processor needs.
Magazine article from: Plastics Technology; 8/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...3 mils thick, Measurex sells a promethium-147 gauge in place of krypton-85. O'Neill explains that promethium inherently responds to changes in...new beta gauge line. Though the promethium source has been around for nearly...
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Scope.
Magazine article from: EDN; 3/29/2007; 685 words
; ...The decay of the beta-emitting radioisotope in an oxide of Promethium 147 has successfully powered a miniature battery about the...employs two-step energy conversion. Beta emissions from the Promethium oxide in the center of the sandwich strike surrounding layers...
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Torch River Resources Ltd.: Mount Copeland Rare Earth Bearing Mineralization.
News Wire article from: Marketwire Canada; 11/11/2009; 700+ words
; ...cerium (Ce), praseodymium (Pr), neodymium (Nd), promethium (Pm), samarium(Sm), europium (Eu), gadolinium...Yb) and lutetium (Lu). All of the rare earths except promethium(Pm) occur naturally along with scandium (Sc) and yttrium...
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Promethium (revised)
Book article from: Chemical Elements: From Carbon to Krypton
PROMETHIUM (REVISED) Note: This article, originally...2006 for the eBook edition. Overview Promethium is one of the most fascinating of all...1945. All of the known isotopes of promethium are radioactive. That is, they break...
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Promethium
Book article from: Chemistry: Foundations and Applications
Promethium melting point: 1,100 ° C...common ions: Pm 3+ The existence of promethium was first theorized in 1902 by Bohuslav...Because only minuscule amounts of promethium are naturally present in Earth's crust...
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promethium
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
promethium , artificially produced radioactive...chemical and physical properties of promethium are not well defined, it is similar...radioactive and fairly short-lived. Promethium-145, the most stable isotope, has...
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Periodic Table of the Elements: Promethium
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Periodic Table of the Elements: Promethium Periodic Table of the Elements: Promethium Atomic Number: 61 Atomic Symbol: Pm Promethium Atomic Weight: (145) Electron Configuration: 2 · 8 ·...
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Lanthanides
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
...praseodymium (Pr), neodymium (Nd), promethium (Pm), samarium (Sm), europium...was not correct. (That exception is promethium, which was first discovered in the...reaction in 1945. Very small amounts of promethium have also been found in naturally occurring...
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