Talk:Plutonium-244/Archive 1
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Table incomprehensible
What is it about? --Maxus96 (talk) 00:51, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
- This table isn't labelled very well; it shows a number of fission products, elements which come into existence as a result of nuclear fission reactions. In nuclear fission reactions the center, or nucleus of a fissionable atom splits into two or three parts. Years of very patient and cautious observation and experimentation allow scientists to predict which isotopes of which elements result from the fission of a given isotope of a given element, or to state which possible isotopes of which elements can result from the fission of a given isotope of a given element, and the probable proportions in which these fission products will be produced.
- This table is in this article because it shows that Plutonium-244 is a primordial isotope of plutonium occurring naturally as an actinide. The text of the article elaborates that the neutron capture required to produce plutonium-244 in natural ores is highly unlikely given the very low neutron flux in the vast majority of uranium deposits in the Earth, so that a process called r-process nucleosynthesis in supernovae is the only plausible way for most of the plutonium-244 on Earth to have been made. loupgarous (talk) 09:20, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
Formating Weirdness
Could something be done about the veeery thin column at the top of this page? The table thing-ie on the right crowds the text down to just 2-3 words per line. I'd fix it myself -- alas I don't know how.