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transuranic

[ UK /tɹænsəɹˈænɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having an atomic number greater than 92

How To Use transuranic In A Sentence

  • This is the first record of the production of synthetic elements, known as transuranic elements.
  • Atomic number 101 is a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles.
  • The Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory has produced a dozen superheavy elements called transuranics and bear such names as berkelium, californium, lawrencium and seaborgium. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • Used fuel is about 95% uranium-238 but it also contains up to 1% uranium-235 that has not fissioned, about 1% plutonium and 3% fission products, which are highly radioactive, with other transuranic elements formed in the reactor. Nuclear fuel cycle
  • The Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory has produced a dozen superheavy elements called transuranics and bear such names as berkelium, californium, lawrencium and seaborgium. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • It finishes with a chronology of metal discoveries through to the transuranic elements.
  • He'd been able to create a transuranic isotope that was stable. FLOATING CITY
  • Radon is a naturally occurring colourless, odourless gas that is emitted from rocks containing minerals rich in the transuranic elements.
  • Berkelium is a transuranic element, with an atomic number of 97 and an atomic mass of 274.0703.
  • The first genuine transuranic element was discovered at Berkeley, where Edwin McMillan used Lawrence's cyclotron in 1939 to bombard uranium with slow neutrons.
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