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Plutonium: Characters, History & Applications

Plutonium is a chemical element; it has symbol Pu and atomic number 94. It is a silvery-gray actinide metal that tarnishes when exposed to air, and forms a dull coating when oxidized. The element normally exhibits six allotropes and four oxidation states. It reacts with carbon, halogens, nitrogen, silicon and hydrogen. When exposed to moist air, it forms…

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Plutonium topic overview

The analysis highlights Characters, History and Applications as prominent areas in the source structure around Plutonium.

Related topics
375
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
382
Extracted relationships
270
Related term clusters
86
Bridge connections
382

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Characteristics · 128 topics
History · 82 topics
Overview · 68 topics
Precautions · 38 topics
Applications · 35 topics
Occurrence · 18 topics
Transportation · 6 topics

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Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

(near r.t.)
20.26 g/cm3 α-244 Pu
236Pu
synth
238Pu
trace
239Pu
trace
240Pu
trace
241Pu
synth

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Overview

Characteristics

Occurrence

History

Applications

Precautions

Transportation

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How Plutonium connects Entity context

The extracted context around Plutonium shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Plutonium → According, Ambio, Carl Johnson, Cold War, Denver, Edward Martell, EPA, Exposures, FBI, Hanford, Large, Much, Prevailing, Pu, Radioactive, Rocky Flats, Rocky Flats Plant, Savannah River Site, SIPRI, South Carolina Another extracted example is Plutonium → Arthur Wahl, Berkeley, Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, California, December, Edwin McMillan, Emilio Segrè, Enrico Fermi, February, Fermi, Fritz Strassmann, Germany, Glenn, Joseph, Kennedy, Neptunium-238, Nobel Lecture, Nuclear, Otto Hahn, Rome. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Plutonium

Top relations

related to Cold War use and waste · 24
Plutonium → According, Ambio, Carl Johnson, Cold War, Denver, Edward Martell, EPA, Exposures, FBI, Hanford, Large, Much, Prevailing, Pu, Radioactive, Rocky Flats, Rocky Flats Plant, Savannah River Site, SIPRI, South Carolina
related to Discovery · 22
Plutonium → Arthur Wahl, Berkeley, Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, California, December, Edwin McMillan, Emilio Segrè, Enrico Fermi, February, Fermi, Fritz Strassmann, Germany, Glenn, Joseph, Kennedy, Neptunium-238, Nobel Lecture, Nuclear, Otto Hahn, Rome
related to Early research · 20
Plutonium → Chicago, Chicago's Stagg Field, Construction, CP-1, DuPont, Enough, Enrico Fermi, Glenn, Hanford, In November, Information, Met Lab, Metallurgical Laboratory, Oak Ridge, On August, On December, Seaborg, University, Using, X-10
related to Trinity and Fat Man atomic bombs · 13
Plutonium → Alamogordo, August, Fat Man, Gadget, Japan, July, Manhattan Project's Smyth Report, Nagasaki, New Mexico, TNT, Together, Trinity, Urchin
related to Compounds and chemistry · 10
Plutonium → III, IV, Pu, Pu3, Pu4, PuO, PuO2, PuO3, VI, VII
related to Occurrence · 10
Plutonium → Based, Cigar Lake Mine, Due, Earth, Finally, Gabon, Oklo, Small, Solar System, Trace
related to Toxicity · 10
Plutonium → Contamination, Donald Mastick, Either, European, Even, Hiroshima, III, Japanese, Nagasaki, Studies
related to Alloys · 9
Plutonium → Exceptions, Gallium, High, III, Neptunium, Partial, PGA, Pu, Silicon
related to Criticality potential · 9
Plutonium → August, Care, Careless, Criticality, Daghlian, Harry Daghlian, Los Alamos, Louis Slotin, Nine
related to Power and heat source · 9
Plutonium → Cassini, Curiosity, Galileo, Mars, New Horizons, One, Perseverance, Plutonium-238, Voyager

Important terminology

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Important terminology

nuclear element used uranium fission plutonium-239 form also metal reactors decay isotopes atomic neutrons half-life found radiation years weapons fuel

Plutonium relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 270 structured relationships around Plutonium. Examples in this analysis include Plutonium → (near r.t.) → 20.26 g/cm3 α-244 Pu and Plutonium → 236Pu → synth. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Plutonium(near r.t.)20.26 g/cm3 α-244 Pu1.00infobox
Plutonium236Pusynth1.00infobox
Plutonium238Putrace1.00infobox
Plutonium239Putrace1.00infobox
Plutonium240Putrace1.00infobox
Plutonium241Pusynth1.00infobox
Plutonium242Pusynth1.00infobox
Plutonium244Putrace1.00infobox
PlutoniumAllotropessee Allotropes of plutonium1.00infobox
PlutoniumAppearancesilvery white, tarnishing to dark gray in air1.00infobox
Plutoniumat T (K)17561.00infobox
PlutoniumAtomic number (Z)941.00infobox
PlutoniumAtomic radiusempirical: 159 pm1.00infobox
PlutoniumBlockf-block1.00infobox
PlutoniumBoiling point3505 K ​(3228 °C, ​5842 °F)1.00infobox
PlutoniumCAS Number7440-07-51.00infobox
PlutoniumCovalent radius187±1 pm1.00infobox
PlutoniumCrystal structure​monoclinic (mP16)1.00infobox
PlutoniumDensity (at 20° C)19.85 g/cm3 α-239 Pu1.00infobox
PlutoniumDiscoveryGlenn T. Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph W. Kennedy, Edwin McMillan (1940–1941)1.00infobox
PlutoniumElectrical resistivity1.460 µΩ⋅m (at 0 °C)1.00infobox
PlutoniumElectron configuration[Rn] 5f6 7s21.00infobox
PlutoniumElectronegativityPauling scale: 1.281.00infobox
PlutoniumElectrons per shell2, 8, 18, 32, 24, 8, 21.00infobox
PlutoniumGroupf-block groups (no number)1.00infobox
PlutoniumHeat of fusion2.82 kJ/mol1.00infobox
PlutoniumHeat of vaporization333.5 kJ/mol1.00infobox
PlutoniumIonization energies1st: 584.7 kJ/mol1.00infobox
PlutoniumLattice constantsa = 0.6183 nm b = 0.4822 nm c = 1.0964 nm β = 101.79° (at 20 °C)1.00infobox
PlutoniumMagnetic orderingparamagnetic1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Plutonium bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Nuclear, Used and Fuel. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • nuclear chain reaction
    • Weapons
    • Fission
    • Waste
    • Plutonium
    • Fuel
    • Reactors
    • Used
    • Uranium
    • Neutron
    • Plutonium-239
    • Found
    • States
  • nuclear weapons
    • Weapons
    • Fission
    • Waste
    • Plutonium
    • Fuel
    • Reactors
    • Used
    • Uranium
    • Neutron
    • Plutonium-239
    • Found
    • States
  • nuclear reactors
    • Fuel
    • Weapons
    • Fission
    • Waste
    • Plutonium
    • Reactors
    • Neutron
    • Used
    • Uranium
    • Plutonium-239
    • Found
    • States
  • spontaneous fission
    • Sample
    • Neutron
    • Neutrons
    • Nuclear
    • Uranium
    • Plutonium-239
    • Alpha
    • High
    • Isotopes
    • Half-life
    • Mass
    • Reactor
  • nuclear test
    • Weapons
    • Fission
    • Waste
    • Plutonium
    • Fuel
    • Reactors
    • Used
    • Uranium
    • Neutron
    • Plutonium-239
    • Found
    • States
  • nuclear power plants
    • Weapons
    • Fission
    • Waste
    • Plutonium
    • Fuel
    • Reactors
    • Used
    • Uranium
    • Neutron
    • Plutonium-239
    • Found
    • States
  • dismantled nuclear weapons
    • Weapons
    • Fission
    • Waste
    • Plutonium
    • Fuel
    • Reactors
    • Used
    • Uranium
    • Neutron
    • Plutonium-239
    • Found
    • States
  • α (alpha) form
    • Decay
    • Temperature
    • Fission
    • Plutonium-238
    • Mass
    • Half-life
    • Metal
    • Years
    • Isotopes
    • Radiation
    • Neutrons
    • Alpha

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Plutonium, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Plutonium with Characteristics. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Plutonium — Characteristics · splits 254 ⟂ 129
Plutonium — History · splits 300 ⟂ 83
Plutonium — Overview · splits 314 ⟂ 69
Plutonium — Precautions · splits 344 ⟂ 39
Plutonium — Applications · splits 347 ⟂ 36
Plutonium — Occurrence · splits 364 ⟂ 19
Plutonium — Transportation · splits 376 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

Plutonium

Nodes383
Edges382
Triples270
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.005222
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Plutonium to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Characters, History & Applications, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Plutonium · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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