Plutonium (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In 1939, the last naturally occurring element on Earth, Francium, was discovered. However, the periodic table of elements still wasn’t full. The next year, a non-natural element was discovered: Plutonium. This new element had fascinating properties which made it incredibly useful and incredibly dangerous. Learn more about plutonium, how it is made, and what it can do on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors BetterHelp Visit BetterHelp.com/everywhere today to get 10% off your first month. Newspapers.com Newspapers.com is like a time machine. Dive into their extensive online archives to explore history as it happened. With over 800 million digitized newspaper pages spanning three centuries, Newspapers.com provides an unparalleled gateway to the past, with papers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia and beyond. Use the code “EverythingEverywhere” at checkout to get 20% off a publisher extra subscription at newspapers.com. ButcherBox ButcherBox is the perfect solution for anyone looking to eat high-quality, sustainably sourced meat without the hassle of going to the grocery store. With ButcherBox, you can enjoy a variety of grass-fed beef, heritage pork, free-range chicken, and wild-caught seafood delivered straight to your door every month. ButcherBox.com/Daily Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Cameron Kieffer Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following is an encore presentation of everything everywhere daily.
0:04.0	In 1939, the last naturally occurring element on Earth, Francium, was discovered.
0:12.0	However, the periodic table of the elements
0:14.4	still wasn't full. The next year, a non-natural element was discovered, plutonium. This new
0:20.3	element had fascinating properties which made it incredibly useful and incredibly dangerous.
0:25.0	Learn more about plutonium, how it's made and what it can do on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Really. To start a discussion of plutonium we might as well start with what it is and where it comes from
0:49.9	plutonium has the atomic number 94 which means it has 94 protons.
0:54.0	Its discovery is credited to Nobel Laureate Glenn Seaborg who discovered 10 different elements on the periodic table.
1:00.0	If you remember back to my episode on the element uranium, which is element 92, it was given its name from the then newly discovered planet Uranus.
1:08.5	Excuse me, Uranus.
1:10.5	Just months before the discovery of plutonium in 1940, element 93 was discovered by
1:15.2	bombarding uranium with a cyclotron and it was called Neptuneium the next
1:19.8	planet after Uranus. Excuse me, Uranus.
1:23.0	Then later that year,
1:25.0	Seaborgena's group at the University of California Berkeley
1:27.0	bombarded Uranium with Duturium, a hydrogen isotope,
1:30.0	which created element 94,
1:32.0	and it was named after the planet after Neptune or at least it was at that time
1:36.2	Pluto only a few atoms of it were actually ever initially created the abbreviation for plutonium is PU even though it really should be
1:45.3	P.L. and there are no other elements with P.L. as an abbreviation.
1:49.8	Seaborg thought it would be funny to call it P u and the abbreviation stuck as I mentioned in the
1:55.3	introduction plutonium isn't considered to be a naturally occurring element
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