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Article: Element, Transuranium
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Element, Transuranium
The road beyond uranium
Transuranium elements and the periodic table
History of the transuranium elements
Cruising the transuranium highway
The end of the road?
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In chemistry, a transuranium (beyond uranium (U)) element, sometimes also called a transuranic element, is any of the chemical elements with atomic numbers higher than 92, which is the atomic number of uranium.
Ever since the eighteenth century when chemists began to recognize certain substances as chemical elements, uranium had been the element with the highest atomic weight; it had the heaviest atoms of all the elements that could be found on the Earth. The general assumption was that no ...