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How is technetium obtained now?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

The metal technetium has no stable isotopes. It is synthesized in the physics lab by lowering a molybdenum sample into an operating nuclear reactor. The molybdenum is bathed in the nuetron flux, and neutron capture will occur and transmute the molybdenum into technetium. The sample is then withdrawn and put into a shielded casket to make it available for use. A link is provided to the Wikipedia article on technetium.

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Where can Technetium be obtained?

Technetium is an artificial chemical element and is extracted from fission products, prepared by neutron activation or by irradiation in particles accelerators.


Where is technetium obtained?

Technetium is an artificial chemical element and is extracted from fission products, prepared by neutron activation or by irradiation in particles accelerators.


What is technetium obtained from?

Technetium is an artificial chemical element and is extracted from fission products, prepared by neutron activation or by irradiation in particles accelerators.


Where is technetium obtained from?

Technetium is primarily obtained as a byproduct of nuclear fission reactions in nuclear reactors. It is produced in small quantities through nuclear reactions involving molybdenum. Synthetic production methods are also used to create technetium for various scientific and medical applications.


What was first synthetic element?

Technetium. Now technetium is considered also a natural chemical element.


Why has the price of technetium gone down since the 1950s?

The price of technetium has gone down because there wasnt much technetium in the 1950s which made it rare and expencive but now there are more power stations now than there was before which produce technetium so there is more about and has reduced in price.


Who supply technetium?

Important facilities to produce the isotope technetium-99m are now in Canada, Belgium, South Africa and Russia.


Why is technetium obtained?

Technetium is an artificial element with applications as:Technetium-99m is largely used as tracer in radiodiagnostic.Technetium-99 is used as standard source for beta radiation.Technetium-95m is used as tracer in environmental studies.


Why can scientists make technetium synthetically but not gold?

You might get gold but these obtained isotopes are radioactive and unstable; so it is useless.


Method of generation of technetium 99 and it mean use?

Technetium -99 may be obtained from burned nuclear fuels, in particles accelerators, by neutronactivation.Technetium-99m is largely used as tracer in radiodiagnostic.Technetium-99 is used as standard source for beta radiation.


What do nickel and technetium have in common?

Nickel and technetium are both transition metals with similar physical properties. They are both able to form multiple oxidation states and are commonly used in various industrial applications. Additionally, both elements are relatively rare in nature and are often obtained as byproducts of certain mining processes.


How is technetium obtained today?

A radioactive, silvery metal that does not occur naturally. It was the first artificially synthesised element (hence its name), first discovered in molybdenum that had been subjected to atomic bombardment. It is today obtained as a grey powder and in tonne quantities from spent nuclear fuel rods. Early chemists puzzled over why they could not discover element number 43, but now we know why : its isotopes are relatively short lived compared to the age of the Earth, so all the original technetium present when the Earth was formed has long since decayed.