The Discovery
Einsteinium was first identified by Albert
Ghiorso’s team at the University of California, Berkeley and G.R. Choppin's team at Los Alamos in December, 1952. The two teams accidentally came across the element when they were studying the
debris of the first large hydrogen bomb detonation, which took place in the
Pacific Ocean in the same year of Einsteinium’s identification. It is the seventh transuranic elements to be discovered. Transuranic elements are elements with atomic number that is over 92; higher than Uranium. Einsteinium can only be artificially made in the laboratory. Scientists can barely produce very tiny amount of Einsteinium as a byproduct of thermonuclear explosion and by irradiating Plutonium. Henceforth, it can only be used for research
purposes.
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| Albert Ghiorso |
The Productivity
Merely a few of milligram of Einsteinium ever produced in
the world and almost all its property and reactivity are still remaining
unknown. Subsequently, there is no product that contains Einsteinium within it.
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