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Neptunium and plutonium are derived from uranium by nuclear reactions.

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What element comes before uranium and after on table?

Before uranium is protactinium. After uranium is neptunium.


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Uranium is more common and useful.


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Chemical symbols of: Mercury - Hg Uranium - U Plutonium - Pu Neptunium - Np


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Neptunium is an artificial chemical element; in the nature infinitesimal amounts of neptunium are possible in uranium ores.


What comes after uranium on the periodic table?

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What is an element that is named after a planet?

Uranium,Plutonium,Neptunium


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Assuming you mean man[made], no. Trace amounts of neptunium are found in uranium ores in Nature.


What are the minerals that neptunium is part of?

Neptunium has not minerals. It is an artificial element and in the nature is very rare, in some uranium ores.


What is neptunium the element found in?

Neptunium is an artificial chemical element but neptunium can be found also in the nature as a result of decay processes in uranium ores, only in ultratraces.


Where does the plutonium come from?

Uranium 238 is bombarded by neutrons, and forms Neptunium 238. Neptunium decays to form Plutonium 238.


How are neptunium thorium protactinium uranium plutonium and americium related?

All these metals are members of the actinoids family, period 7 in the periodic table of Mendeleev.


Where does the element plutonium come from?

Uranium 238 is bombarded by neutrons, and forms Neptunium 238. Neptunium decays to form Plutonium 238.