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Where was neptunium first found in?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Neptunium was obtained for the first time by Edwin McMillan and Philip H. Abelson in 1940 at Berkeley Laboratories.

The nuclear reactions are:

23892U + n-------23992U-------23993Np + e

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