Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A silvery, metallic, naturally radioactive element, atomic number 93, the first of the transuranium elements. Its longest-lived isotope is Np-237 with a half-life of 2.1 million years. Found in trace quantities in uranium ores, it is produced synthetically by nuclear reactions. cross-reference: Periodic Table.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In chem., a supposed new element announced by Hermann in 1877 as present in columbite and ferro-ilmenite. Its existence has not been confirmed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A radioactive metallic element of atomic number 93, produced in nuclear reactors from Plutonium or Uranium. Symbol Np; The atomic weight of the most stable isotope is 237.0482.
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- noun The
transuranic chemical element withatomic number 93 and symbol Np.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a radioactive transuranic metallic element; found in trace amounts in uranium ores; a by-product of the production of plutonium
Etymologies
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Examples
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In this way there was discovered an entirely new radioactive series which, from its most long-lived member, is now called the neptunium family.
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There are no easy intermediate stages, like the neptunium which is a stage between uranium and plutonium.
The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978
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Scientists have been creating new elements since 1940, when neptunium and plutonium were first forged at the University of California, Berkeley.
Party of Two Is Seated at the Periodic Table Robert Lee Hotz 2011
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Scientists have been creating new elements since 1940, when neptunium and plutonium were first forged at the University of California, Berkeley.
Party of Two Is Seated at the Periodic Table Robert Lee Hotz 2011
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Between those planets sits Neptune, and the gap between the two elements leaves a space for their relatively unsung cousin, neptunium – element number 93 in the periodic table.
Archive 2010-01-01 Brian Clegg 2010
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Between those planets sits Neptune, and the gap between the two elements leaves a space for their relatively unsung cousin, neptunium – element number 93 in the periodic table.
Neptunium - the element with a name issue Brian Clegg 2010
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And Ireta, a satellite of a suspected third generation sun, ought to be rich in the heavier elements, rich in the neptunium, plutonium and the more esoteric of the rare transuranics and actinites above uranium on the periodic table, so urgently and constantly required by the Federation of Sentient Populations the search for which was one of the primary tasks of the EEC.
Cattle Town 2010
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Although all of these goals were demonstrated, the program was aborted before recycling of neptunium and americium was properly evaluated.
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General Atomics say that the MHR has a neutron spectrum is such and the TRISO fuel so stable that the reactor can be powered fully with separated transuranic wastes (neptunium, plutonium, americium and curium) from light water reactor used fuel.
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More recently, there has been interest in transmuting the long-lived transuranic radionuclides (the actinides neptunium, americium and curium particularly) formed by neutron capture in a conventional reactor and reporting with the high-level waste.
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December 16, 2007