Saturday, August 25, 2012

Plutonium

Plutonium is a radioactive element, and on the periodic table it is PU. Most people might confuse it as PL  but when they were naming it Pu was easily remembered.It has many interesting uses including a nuclear bomb. It was discovered by the university of California, since in nature it is found in minimum amounts it would have been really hard to find it. They made it in world war 2 for atomic bombs and it is created for uranium. It can be also used as heating chemical but its radioactive. It is currently used for electricy and it is also being used in spacecraft being sent today.