{"id":8433,"date":"2023-04-11T06:12:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T00:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8433"},"modified":"2025-03-29T02:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:29:47","slug":"uranium-241","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/uranium-241\/","title":{"rendered":"Uranium 241"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Uranium 241:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It has an atomic number of 92 and a mass number of 241.<\/li>\n<li>The researchers also calculated that uranium-241 likely has a <strong>half-life of just 40 minutes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How was uranium-241 found?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The researchers <strong>accelerated uranium-238 nuclei into plutonium-198<\/strong> nuclei at the KEK Isotope Separation System (KISS).<\/li>\n<li>In a process called multinucleon transfer, the two isotopes exchange protons and neutrons. The resulting nuclear fragments contained different isotopes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about the Uranium<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It was discovered in 1789 by Martin Klaproth, a German chemist.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>silvery-white metallic chemical element<\/strong> in the periodic table, with atomic number 92.<\/li>\n<li>It has the <strong>highest atomic weight<\/strong> of all naturally occurring elements.<\/li>\n<li>It occurs naturally in low concentrations in soil, rock and water, and is commercially extracted from uranium-bearing minerals such as uraninite.<\/li>\n<li>Uranium ore can be mined from open pits or underground excavations.<\/li>\n<li>The ore can then be crushed and treated at a mill to separate the valuable uranium from the ore.<\/li>\n<li>Uranium may also be dissolved directly from the ore deposits in the ground (in-situ leaching) and pumped to the surface.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an isotope?<\/h3>\n<p>An isotope is a variant of an element that has the same number of protons in its atomic nucleus but a different number of neutrons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/in-pursuit-of-a-magic-number-physicists-discover-new-uranium-isotope\/article66699249.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>In pursuit of a \u2018magic number\u2019, physicists discover new uranium isotope<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uranium 241 has an atomic number of 92 and a mass number of 241.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}