Promethium

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
Pm
Pronunciation
/prəˈmiˌθiəm/
Category
Academic & Science
Related Field
Chemistry

Examples in Context

  1. Just as technetium and promethium are islands of instability in parts of the periodic table which are not normally radioactive, so many physicists believe that in the unstable part at the bottom there lies an island of stability.
  2. Hanford does it another way, and generate too much promethium.
  3. Analysis of contents of promethium - 147 in food
  4. Studies were carried out with radionuclide tracer on absorption, distribution and absorption coefficient of rare earth Promethium(Pm) ( 147 Pm ) in three species of aquatic vegetables ( arrowhead, water chestnut and water dropwort ).
  5. The heat stabilities and transparencies of stearates of rare earth metals except scandium and promethium used as heat stabilizers as PVC were studied.

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