Berkeley chemist Glenn Seaborg proposed this element’s symbol as a joke because it smells so bad. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this element that Seaborg isolated from uranium in 1941. It was later used in a nuclear bomb.
ANSWER: plutonium [or Pu]
[10m] Warning! If you got close enough to Pu-239 to smell it, you’d be at serious risk of radiation poisoning, since it alpha decays into this fissile isotope, the main target of uranium enrichment.
ANSWER: uranium-235 [or U-235]
[10h] This longtime Berkeley colleague of Seaborg built a uranium enrichment device out of a particle accelerator and called it a calutron to honor the school. This scientist founded a laboratory that sits on the hill overlooking Berkeley.
ANSWER: Ernest Lawrence [Ernest Orlando Lawrence; or Lawrence Berkeley National Lab]
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