Which Happened First?

Discovery of technetium

Discovery of technetium
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Technetium is a chemical element; it has symbol Tc and atomic number 43. It is the lightest element whose isotopes are all radioactive. Technetium is one of only two radioactive elements both preceded and succeeded in the periodic table by elements with stable forms, the other being promethium.

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Which happened first?

Timeline

  1. Discovery of technetium (this page)1937
  2. Discovery of francium1939
  3. Discovery of astatine1940
  4. Discovery of neptunium1940
  5. Discovery of plutonium1941
  6. Discovery of americium1944

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