-- card: 38775 from stack: in -- bmap block id: 0 -- flags: 0000 -- background id: 14320 -- name: Pu -- part contents for background part 14 ----- text ----- Pu -- part contents for background part 22 ----- text ----- Plutonium -- part contents for background part 15 ----- text ----- 94 -- part contents for background part 17 ----- text ----- (244) -- part contents for background part 18 ----- text ----- 19.84 -- part contents for background part 19 ----- text ----- 641 -- part contents for background part 20 ----- text ----- 3232 -- part contents for background part 21 ----- text ----- +3,+4,+5,+6 -- part contents for background part 16 ----- text ----- (Planet Pluto) Synthesized by Seaborg, McMillan, Kennedy and Wahl in 1940 by deuteron bombardment of uranium in a cyclotron (device used to accelerate atomic particles) at Berkely, California. Found in trace quantities in uranium ores. Available from the Atomic Energy Commission. A relatively large piece of plutonium in warm to the touch due to radiation, and very large pieces can boil water. -- part contents for background part 23 ----- text ----- rare earth metal, radioactive, 15 isotopes, silvery, yellow tarnish when exposed to air, reactive, radiological hazard, dissolves in certain acids, 6 allotropic forms, heavy alpha emitter, emissions can be absorbed into bone marrow, must be handled with special equipment -- part contents for background part 24 ----- text ----- explosive ingredient in nuclear weapons -- part contents for background part 26 ----- text ----- Electron Configuration: 1s 2s 2p 3s 3p 3d 4s 4p 4d 4f 5s 5p 5d 5f 6s 6p 6d 6f 7s 2 2 6 2 6 10 2 6 10 14 2 6 10 6 2 6 2