What an interesting question. The answer is however complex.
It is possible to make small amounts of some radioactive elements or radioactive isotopes of some elements in a laboratory (usually involving a nuclear pile or an accelerator). For instance the element Plutonium is made this way.
(Other radioactive elements are produced naturally by the radioactive decay of heavier radioactive elements)
However, making a radioactive element or isotope from scratch requires the application of an enormous amount of energy. The place where all elements heavier than the element Iron (Fe - Atomic number 26) are made is in stellar explosions, the death of stars 8 or more times more massive than our Sun, called "supernovas".
It is in supernova explosions that the radioactive elements are made.
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Uranium.
Studying residues of uranium ores Marie Curie and Pierre Curie found that these residues are more radioactive than uranium; they attributed this radioactivity to unknown elements. They isolated these elements and named these elements polonium and radium.
Radium and polonium are radioactive natural chemical elements.
No. The Curies did not discover uranium. They discovered polonium and radium, of which polonium is more radioactive.
How many radioactive elements are made only in a laboratory?
About 28 elements were discovered in the laboratory. But after the man made preparation some elements were discovered also in nature in very extremely traces: Pm, Tc, Pu, Np, Am, Cm, Bk.
Elements that are made by fusing existing elements with fast-moving particles are called transuranium elements or synthetic elements. These elements are usually created in a laboratory setting through nuclear reactions and are typically unstable and radioactive.
After disintegration all radioactive elements are transformed in other elements.
actinides
The family of radioactive elements is called the Actinides. This group includes elements such as uranium, thorium, and plutonium, which are known for their radioactive properties.
Yes, mendelevium is man made and radioactive.
When synthesized elements fall apart, they undergo nuclear decay or radioactive decay, which can result in the release of radiation and the formation of other elements as byproducts. This process can occur due to the unstable nature of these artificially produced elements synthesized in a laboratory.
The actinides
Transuranic elements are known as synthetic elements because they are not found naturally on Earth and must be created in a laboratory through nuclear reactions. These elements have atomic numbers higher than uranium (92) and are generally unstable and radioactive. Scientists have been able to produce transuranic elements by bombarding heavy elements with particles to create new elements.
Synthetic elements are unstable chemical elements not naturally found on the earth. They are synthesized in the laboratory. All of them are unstable and radioactive in nature, which means they emit radiations and decay into other elements.
Incorporating radioactive nucleotides must be done to ensure that DNA made in a laboratory is radioactive.