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Nuclear transmutation - nuclear transmutation (transuranium elements

Q: How can you create a transuranium element?

by taking two heavy enough 'natural' existing elements and smash them into each other in a particle accelerator. The atomic number has to end up above 92. In the example given in the video, PB and FE are used and a new element is created, that only can be created in the lab. (its hassium atomic number 108)

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(again) what is a transuranium element?

transuranium elements have atomic number 92 and can only be created in the lab, they don't exist in nature. They are unstable and "if they get the chance" they immediately fall into some kind of decay process (alpha, beta, gamma etc)

How can you create a transuranium element?

by taking two heavy enough "natural" existing elements and smash them into each other in a particle accelerator. The atomic number has to end up above 92. In the example given in the video, PB and FE are used and a new element is created, that only can be created in the lab. (its hassium atomic number 108)

Which are other ways of creating transuranium elements?

- taking an existing transuranium element and bombard it with a neutron or an alpha particle. Starting at uranium (92 in the periodic system). A new neutron gets incorporated in the element, it is still the same element, higher mass number, it is unstable and one of the decay processes will change the number of the protons.
- bombard existing transuranium elements with alpha particles and this will also create so kind of nuclear reaction.

Difference between alchemy and renewal

Alchemy I see as natural happening reactive decay processes, like alpha, beta, gamma and positron decay. Symbolic of renewal I see in using a particle accelerator and in the lab create new elements. Two ways, one is using two existing "natural" elements bombard them into each other, the other way is using newly created or existing element and bombard it with neutrons, alpha particle etc.

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