List of elements in the periodic table

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{{See also|Periodic Table}}
This is a list of the elements listed in the periodic table.<ref>[https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/ Periodic Table], ''Royal Society of Chemistry''</ref>

==Hydrogen==
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!Element!!Atomic Number!!Use(s)||Symbol||Radioactive?
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|[[Hydrogen]]||1||Blowing up the Hindenburg, [[water]], acidity, composing the vast majority of the universe's matter, and present in almost as many compounds as carbon||H||No
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==Alkali metals==
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!Element!!Atomic Number!!Use(s)||Symbol||Radioactive?
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|Lithium||3||making rechargeable batteries, treating bipolar disorder||Li||No
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|Sodium||11||explodes when touching water, table [[salt]], baking soda, important in cell osmosis||Na||No
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|Potassium||19||[[File:Banana.gif]] Fertilizers, important for [[brain]]s to function, K-40 is famously radioactive||K||No
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|Rubidium||37||In very precise clocks, photocells, purple-red fireworks||Rb||No
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|Cesium||55||atomic clocks, ion propulsion systems, vacuum tubes, softest metal in its pure form||Cs||No
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|Francium||87|| {{cf|fr}} ||Fr||Yes
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==Alkaline earth metals==
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!Element!!Atomic Number!!Use(s)!!Symbol!!Radioactive?
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|Beryllium||4||strong but lightweight material, gyroscopes, accelerometers, missiles, emeralds||Be||No
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|Magnesium||12||Most used metal after steel and aluminum, present in chlorophyll, alloys, cars, planes, electronics, batteries, [[asbestos]]||Mg||No
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|[[Calcium]]||20|| bones, cement, limestone, gypsum, antacids, plays an important role in the carbon cycle||Ca||No
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|Strontium||38||red fireworks, glass in old-fashioned CRT televisions||Sr||No
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|Barium||56||drilling fluid, rat poison, medical imaging||Ba||No
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|[[Radium]]||88||Being dangerously radioactive, decays to even-deadlier radon, was a fad in the early 20th century||Ra||Yes
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==Transition metals==
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!Element!!Atomic Number!!Use(s)!!Symbol!!Radioactive?
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|Scandium||21||When you need tools, bicycles, baseball bats||Sc||No
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|Titanium||22||strong but lightweight, artificial bones, aircraft parts, non-toxic white paint||Ti||No
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|Vanadium||23||In tools; shock-, vibration-, and neutron-resistant alloys; catalyst for sulfuric acid ||V||No
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|Chromium||24||Chrome plating, stainless steel, rubies, tanning leather||Cr||No
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|Manganese||25||Alloying with steel and aluminum, certain enzymes||Mn||No
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|[[Iron]]||26||ferromagnetic, Earth's magnetic field, (electro)magnets, steel, hemoglobin, blue ink, good conductor of heat and electricity, end of the line in stellar nucleosynthesis||Fe||No
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|Cobalt||27||ferromagnetic, coloring glass blue, jet turbines||Co||No
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|Nickel||28||in currency, certain kinds of stainless steel, corrosion-resistant||Ni||No
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|Copper||29||coins, good conductor of heat and electricity, industrial equipment; The first metal humans smelted||Cu||No
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|Zinc||30||In currency, brass, luminous paint, plating (galvanizing steel)||Zn||No
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|Yttrium||39||Forms YBCO, microwave filters in radars||Y||No
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|Zirconium||40||Fake [[diamond]]s, tubing in nuclear reactors, ultra-strong ceramics||Zr||No
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|Niobium||41||Piercings, NMR equipment, destroying [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo's]] economy (with tantalum)||Nb||No
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|Molybdenum||42||Alloys, maglevs, generating technetium||Mo||No
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|Technetium||43||Nuclear medicine||Tc||Yes
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|Ruthenium||44||olefin metathesis, chip resistors||Ru||No
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|Rhodium||45||Plating cheap jewelry, catalytic converters in cars, having a very unstable market value||Rh||No
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|Palladium||46||Imitating silver,<ref group=notes>Which is pretty [[Irony|ironic]], considering that palladium is actually ''more'' expensive than silver.</ref> catalytic converters, ceramic capacitors, cross-coupling reactions||Pd||No
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|Silver||47||Mirrors, great conductor of heat and electricity, coins, anti-bacterial fabrics, killing [[Lycanthropy|werewolves]]||Ag||No
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|Cadmium||48||Yellow, carcinogenic pigment, fission-controlling rods||Cd||No
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|Hafnium||72||Plasma torches, control rods in nuclear submarines||Hf||No
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|Tantalum||73||Capacitors,<ref group=notes>Maybe one is in the device you're using to read this...</ref> surgical implants, turbine blades, destroying [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo's]] economy (with niobium)||Ta||No
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|Tungsten||74||Incredibly high melting point, mining drills, lightbulbs/globes, armor-piecing shells||W||No
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|Rhenium||75||Alloys, thin wires, rarest stable element||Re||No
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|Osmium||76||Alloying with iridium, fountain pens; most dense metal||Os||No
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|Iridium||77||Spark plug electrodes, photocatalysis, common in meteorites; metal most resistant to corrosion||Ir||No
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|Platinum||78||Jewelry, optical fibres, hard disks, 
being really expensive
 catalysis||Pt||No
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|[[Gold]]||79||Jewelry, high performance electrical contacts, highly ductile and malleable, scamming elderly people, 
[[gold standard (economics)|money!!!]]
||Au||No
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|[[Mercury]]||80||
First planet from the sun</S> Poison, thermometers, vermillion pigment, turning milliners insane, freaks anti-vaxxers out||Hg||No
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|Rutherfordium||104||None||Rf||Yes
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|Dubnium||105||None||Db||Yes
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|Seaborgium||106||None||Sg||Yes 
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|Bohrium||107||None||Bh||Yes
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|Hassium||108||None||Hs||Yes
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|Meitnerium||109||None||Mt||Yes
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|Darmstadtium||110||None||Ds||Yes
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|Roentgenium||111||None||Rg||Yes
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|Copernicium||112||None||Cn||Yes
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==Semimetals==
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!Element!!Atomic Number!!Use(s)!!Symbol!!Radioactive?
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|Boron||5||Borax, fiberglass, green color in fireworks||B||No
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|Silicon||14||Electronics, sand, glass, [[astrobiology|speculative life]]||Si||No
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|Germanium||32||Camera lenses, old transistors||Ge||No
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|[[Arsenic]]||33||Poison, doping semiconductors||As||No
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|Antimony||51||Alloying with lead, mascara used in ancient times, {{wpl|Fluoroantimonic acid|ridiculously corrosive acid}}||Sb||No
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|Tellurium||52||In DVDs, solar cells||Te||No
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==Other Nonmetals==
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!Element!!Atomic Number!!Use(s)!!Symbol!!Radioactive?
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|[[Carbon]]||6||Terrestrial life, [[Coal|High]] [[Oil|efficiency]] [[Natural gas|fuel]], [[Plastic]], dietary fats, carbs, and fibers, [[Global warming|global warming]], pencils, reducing iron ore to iron, steel, present in 95% of known compounds||C||No
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|Nitrogen||7||Air, protein, ammonia, fertilizer, having a really low boiling point, dynamite||N||No
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|Phosphorus||15||Fertilizer, matches, DNA, [[Cell| phospholipid bilayers]], baking powder, making [[Methamphetamine| meth]]<ref group=notes>This is the reason it's illegal to buy elemental phosphorus in the United States</ref>||P||No
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==Post-transition metals==
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!Element!!Atomic Number!!Use(s)!!Symbol!!Radioactive?
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|[[Aluminum]]||13||Airplanes, foil, beverage cans, thermite, coins that aren't worth their weight in zinc||Al||No
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|Gallium||31||LEDs, having a low melting point||Ga||No
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|Indium||49||Thermometers, LCDs, [[quantum computer]]s||In||No
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|Tin||50||Many alloys, including bronze, pewter and solder||Sn||No
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|Thallium||81||Poison, low temperature thermometers||Tl||No
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|[[Lead]]||82||
Pipes, paint, gasoline additive
 Poison, bullets, specialized glass, vehicle batteries, radiation shielding||Pb||No
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|Bismuth||83||Pepto-Bismol, fire extinguishers, beautiful crystals||Bi||Yes(technically)<ref group=notes>All isotopes of bismuth are radioactive, some however have really, ''really'' long half-lives.</ref>The most common isotope is much less radioactive than... YOU!
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|[[Polonium]]||84||{{wpl|Alexander Litvinenko|Assassinating ex-FSB agents|,}} antistatic devices||Po||Yes
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|Nihonium||113||None||Nh||Yes
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|Flerovium||114||None||Fv||Yes
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|[[Moscovium]]||115||
[[UFO]]s
 None||Mc||Yes
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|Livermorium||116||None||Lv||Yes
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==Chalcogens==
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!Element!!Atomic Number!!Use(s)!!Symbol!!Radioactive?
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|[[Oxygen]]||8||Cellular respiration, fire, antifreeze, 65% of the mass of the [[human]] body||O||No
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|Sulfur||16||Creating [[India#Acid attacks|face-melting acid]], pesticides, rotten egg smell||S||No
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|Selenium||34||Glass production, photocopiers, anti-dandruff shampoo||Se||No
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==Halogens==
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!Element!!Atomic Number!!Use(s)!!Symbol!!Radioactive?
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|[[Fluorine]]||9||Toothpaste, Teflon, violent reactivity, separating uranium isotopes||F||No
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|Chlorine||17||Table salt, disinfecting swimming pools, PVC, chloroform, chemical weapons||Cl||No
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|Bromine||35||Disinfectant, flame retardants||Br||No
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|[[Iodine]]||53||Antiseptic, dyes, nutritional suplements||I||No
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|Astatine||85||Being the rarest naturally occurring element||At||Yes
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|Tennessine||117||None||Ts||Yes
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==Noble gases==
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!Element!!Atomic Number!!Use(s)!!Symbol!!Radioactive?
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|[[Helium]]||2||In balloons, blimps and zeppelins, shielding gas, coolant for MRI and NMR, gas chromatography, jokes about pitch-shifts; liquid helium has interesting properties and is one of the coolest materials known to science||He||No
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|Neon||10||Gaudy casinos, lasers||Ne||No
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|Argon||18||Shield gas for substances that oxidize easily, fluorescent bulbs, third most common gas in Earth's atmosphere||Ar||No
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|Krypton||36||
Superman's home planet
 Incandescent bulbs, high-speed photography, determining the standard measurement of length||Kr||No
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|Xenon||54||
Galactic ruler of [[Scientology]] fame
 Highly efficient, electrically-powered ion thrusters on satellites, microprocessors||Xe||No
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|Radon||86||Leading cause of lung cancer that isn't [[smoking]] or [[asbestos]]||Rn||Yes
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|Oganesson<ref group=notes>[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anie.202011976#:~:text=Oganesson%3A%20A%20Noble%20Gas%20Element%20That%20Is%20Neither%20Noble%20Nor%20a%20Gas,-Dr. Which is unlikely to be noble or a gas at room temperature]</ref>||118||None||Og||Yes
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==Rare Earth metals==
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!Element!!Atomic Number!!Use(s)!!Symbol!!Radioactive?
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|Lanthanum||57||Flints, studio lighting, anodes of batteries used in hybrid cars||La||No
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|Cerium||58||Lighter flints, floodlights, non-toxic red pigment||Ce||No
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|Praseodymium||59||Coloring glass yellow, aircraft engines||Pr||No
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|Neodymium||60||Very strong magnets, laser pointers||Nd||No
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|Promethium||61||Atomic batteries, source of x-rays||Pm||Yes
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|Samarium||62||Powerful magnets used in electronics, infrared-absorbing glass||Sm||No
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|Europium||63||Red and blue phosphors in CRT televisions, anti-counterfeit measure in [[Euro]] banknotes||Eu||No
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|Gadolinium||64||Increasing contrast in MRI scans, heat- and oxidation-resistant alloys||Gd||No
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|Terbium||65||Fluorescent lights, solid-state devices, loudspeakers||Tb||No
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|Dysprosium||66||Nuclear control rods, halide discharge lamps||Dy||No
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|Holmium||67||High strength magnets, nuclear reactors||Ho||No
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|Erbium||68||Photographic filters, pink glass, broadband signals||Er||No
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|Thulium||69||Lasers, x-ray machines||Tm||No
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|Ytterbium||70||Strengthening stainless steel, memory devices||Yb||No
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|Lutetium||71||Lights in LEDs, refining oil||Lu||No
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==Actinides==
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!Element!!Atomic Number!!Use(s)!!Symbol!!Radioactive?
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|Actinium||89||Radio-immunotherapy||Ac||Yes
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|Thorium||90||Lantern mantles, high-quality lenses, alloys with magnesium||Th||Yes
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|Protactinium||91||None||Pa||Yes
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|[[Uranium]]||92||[[Nuclear power]], [[radiometric dating]], yellow ceramic glaze||U||Yes
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|Neptunium||93||Neutron detection equipment||Np||Yes
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|Plutonium||94||Old pacemakers, some nuclear bombs||Pu||Yes
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|Americium||95||Smoke detectors, source of gamma rays||Am||Yes
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|Curium||96||Powering equipment used on space missions||Cm||Yes
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|Berkelium||97||None||Bk||Yes
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|Californium||98||Portable metal detectors, finding underground water and petroleum, strong neutron emitter||Cf||Yes
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|Einsteinium||99||Found in debris created by hydrogen bombs||Es||Yes
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|Fermium||100||Experimental radiotherapy, heaviest element that can be created in a nuclear reactor||Fm||Yes
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|Mendelevium||101||None||Md||Yes
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|Nobelium||102||None||No||Yes
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|Lawrencium||103||None||Lr||Yes
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==Notes==
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==References==
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