First, separate actinide oxides were reacted with ammonium hydrogen fluoride to form ammonium actinide fluorides at room temperature. Subsequently, this fluoride was converted to an actinide oxide ...

RETURN TO ISSUE PREV Article NEXT Periodic Trends in Actinide Phosphonates: Divergence and Convergence between Thorium, Uranium, Neptunium, and Plutonium Systems Anna-Gay D. Nelson † , Travis H. Bray ...

Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have synthesized a new isotope—protactinium-210—for the first time. It is the ...

The discovery of a metal-rich star packed with both light and heavy elements hints at exotic stellar explosions and the role of ancient dwarf galaxies in seeding the cosmos with uranium and thorium.