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Occurs as one of the fission products of uranium
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technetium
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a crystalline metallic element not found in nature; occurs as one of the fission products of uranium [syn: Tc , atomic number 43 ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A metallic chemical element (''symbol'' Tc) with an atomic number of 43.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1947, coined in Modern Latin from Greek tekhnetos "artificial," from tekhne "art, skill, craft" (see techno- ) + metallic element ending -ium .
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Technetium is a chemical element with symbol Tc and atomic number 43. It is the lightest element of which all isotopes are radioactive ; none are stable . Only one other such element, promethium , is followed (in the periodic table) by elements with stable ...
Usage examples of technetium.
Four of the neighbors are also colorful additives in glazes and dyes, suggesting a variety of uses for that rarest of birds, technetium, if only people could be gotten interested in it.
Everyone knows, of course, that soon thereafter, technetium coins were in fact minted and sold by a private company called the Palwal Mint and Trust, which can in no way be connected to Rakesh Solanki, Abha Solanki, or the Kakodar Nuclear Power Station.
Abha, short of funds as always, have monkeyed with her precious reactor to produce an excess of technetium for her hubby to dispose?
Would the Rombili ship technetium to a gook world, considering the shortage of the past year?
At the present reduced levels of use, existing stocks of technetium will last less than eleven deks.
To be able to observe the entry of both rockets into the atmosphere, sodium and technetium had been added to their hypergolic fuel: the first colored the exhaust flame a bright yellow, the second tagged it with a spectral line not found in the spectra of the local sun or the Quintan orbiters.
It would give Iryala added leverage, because no one could make steel without getting their technetium from us.
Kettle was where technite was found, the source of the technetium used in steel manufacture throughout the Confederation.
The refined technite was shipped off-planet for extraction of its technetium, as the extraction process required considerable support technology.
While here, the knowledge of steel without technetium would have been encysted, walled off as a singularity, an unimportance not allowed to influence Standard Technology.
Steel made without technetium would have been described falsely as very inferior, not fit for civilized use.
It is surprising to find such an unstable element as technetium, an explosion product of the atomic bomb, in the stars.
Wilson and Palomar Observatories, found several technetium lines in the spectra of S-type stars.
Or consider the element technetium, whose most stable form has 99 protons and neutrons.
As a result, any technetium formed by stars with the other elements billions of years ago must all be gone by now.