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HOW MUCH DOES THE ELEMENT EINSTEINIUM COST?

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HOW MUCH DOES THE ELEMENT EINSTEINIUM COST?

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“The most famous scientist of all time, Albert Einstein, obviously deserves to have an element named after him. Unfortunately his has a half-life of 472 days and no known applications. Better luck next time?” “There are some elements you’re just not going to get a sample of, and this is one of them.” Source and further information: http://www.periodictable.com/Elements/099/index.html “In 1961, enough einsteinium was synthesized to prepare a microscopic amount of 253Es. This sample weighed about 0.01 mg and was measured using a special balance. The material produced was used to produce mendelevium. Further einsteinium has been produced at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s High Flux Isotope Reactor in Tennessee by bombarding 239Pu with neutrons. Around 3 milligrams were created over a four year program of irradiation and then chemical separation from a starting 1 kg of plutonium isotope.”

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