Studying such compounds in the lab also helps computational researchers to improve their predictions about the more highly
radioactive elements present in nuclear waste that are even more difficult to study.
Not exact matches
Thanks to this sample, the research team was able to calculate the amount of curium
present in the early solar system and to compare it to the amount of other heavy
radioactive elements such as iodine - 129 and plutonium - 244.
We would generally not be able to measure strontium or plutonium or other
radioactive elements if we could not detect cesium because these other
elements would be
present in such minute amounts that our instruments are not capable of detecting them.
About a dozen of the
elements in this salt are
radioactive, among the heavy metals
present are lead, mercury, arsenic, thallium, cadmium, polonium, etc..
Radon gas comes from
radioactive elements (uranium and radium)
present in soil.