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$Photograph of X-ray diffraction quality single-crystals of [K(2.2.2-cryptand)]{PuII[C5H3(SiMe3)2]3}, [K(crypt)][PuIICp’’3]. Image credit: Cory J. Windorff et al, doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b00706.$

Chemists Discover New Oxidation State of Plutonium

Mar 28, 2017 by News Staff

A team of chemists from the University of California, Irvine, and Los Alamos National Laboratory has created a new oxidation state, Pu+2, of the transuranic...