UNCANNY Chemistry Cache Atomic Number 98 Traditional Cache
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UNCANNY Chemistry Cache Atomic Number 98
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Understanding Nomenclature, Chemistry, And Nanos Near Youngstown
This series blends my career as a chemist and my love of geocaching. You are looking for a nano on the sign that represents the chemical symbol for the element in the cache title.
Brush the dust off your periodic tables. (I understand some of you may have destroyed or mutilated them because of the love/hate nature of chemistry.) The series is not meant to be difficult but fun and educational.
Beware of Muggles. Please tighten and return the Nano to the exact location and save space by only initialling the log.
Additional information:
Discovered by Glenn T. Seaborg, Stanley G. Thompson, Albert Ghiorso, Kenneth Street at 1950 in USA. Named after the State and University.
Uses:
It is radioactive and only available in very small amounts so its uses are somewhat specialized. Foils made are used as a source of fission fragments for research purposes. It is a good source of neutrons. It can be used as a portable neutron source for the detection of gold or silver by on-the-spot activation analysis. It is used in moisture gauges for the determination of water and oil-bearing layers in oil wells.
Source: webelements.com
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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