Every element has many uses, however the average person has no idea what most of the uses are. Most of the elements many people do not know about the vital roles they play in our everyday lives. Element 52, otherwise known as Tellurium (Te) is one of forty-four elements that are at risk of running out or endangered. Tellurium is a metalloid and has an atomic mass of 127.6 grams Tellurium is listed as one of nine elements that there is a serious threat of them running out in the next one hundred years. This does not mean that these nine elements will vanish from the planet but at some point the world will need to change how we use the element or find an alternative element to accomplish the previous element’s task. Tellurium has an atomic …show more content…
When an element is teratogenic it disturbs the process of how a fetus or embryo develops. It is known that workers who come in contact with small doses of the element through the air obtain “Tellurium breath” which as a result develops an odor similar to garlic. The main use of Tellurium is to enhance the machinability of alloys like copper and stainless steel. It can also be used with semiconductors involving copper, gold, silver, and tin. If you add Tellurium to lead it can increase its hardness and strength as well as improve its resiliency to acids. Tellurium also has applications in oil refining, solar cells, CDs and DVDs, tinting ceramics and glass, as well as improving the qualities of rubber. If the world was to run out of tellurium a replacement would need to be found quickly due to the uses of it. Tellurium is used to make thin, cheap solar panels. Without another alternative the price of solar panels would increase due to the cost of more expensive materials. But new processes have allowed for photovoltaic cells and circuit boards can be recycled and broken down for …show more content…
Tellurium can also by obtained commercially through the process of electrolytic copper refining. The cost of pure Tellurium is twenty-four dollars per one hundred grams compared to the cost of unpurified Tellurium at forty-four cents per one hundred grams. Of all of the Tellurium available to the world about ninety percent of it is found as a byproduct of copper. The rest is found in small deposits of bismuth, gold, and silver. The amount of telluride ores found can be large on these deposits, but is only cost effective to mine when bismuth, gold, and silver are also recovered. There are rumors that in China that there is a large deposit of Tellurium, but upon investigation into the mine it was determined that it was bismuth telluride ore. It is estimated that the amount of Tellurium that can be recovered in a year can be as much as 3,200 tons. While actual reports of the recovered amount is near twenty-five to fifty percent of 3,200 tons. Meaning that 1,600 tons could possibly be the most Tellurium we can recover and produce in a year from a 1997 study done by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory
In March of 1768, in present-day Ohio, Tecumseh was born. Tecumseh's name means "Panther in the sky." Tecumseh was the fifth born in his family. His mom, Methotaske, was a Creek, and his dad, Puckeshinewa, was a Shawnee. He excelled at the game's Indian boys played. He also organized other boys to go on hunts. When Tecumseh was younger he admired and looked up to the warriors, like his older brother. He also tried to be like the warriors. Later in his life, Tecumseh became a powerful chief to the Native American Tribe, the Shawnee's. He did not want the Americans to take the Native American's land. He accomplished many things in his life.
Uranium has multiple isotopes, the most common isotope is uranium-238, and with uranium-235 being the most popular, but less abundant. Surprisingly, uranium is not necessary for the sustainability of life, and is not chemically toxic (Cox, ...
Technetium is a silver-gray radioactive element and it is located in the D-block with an atomic number of 43. Most of the Tc-99 is produced synthetically, where natural occurrences of the element are rarely formed by fission in uranium in the crust of the earth. Tc-99 is the most common isotope with a radioactive half-life of 212,000 years and it can mainly be found in nuclear reactors.
at worst, we would get about 2 million years of power from it. Thorium is
Mining for elements that could be used as a nuclear power were very important in the Cold War. New technology and research for nuclear material was an essential part in building a nuclear weapon. The most important element for making nuclear weapons is uranium. Uranium is used to make plutonium, a very powerful element, by deuteron bombardment of uranium oxide. Uranium, a gray-colored element, is mined from the common uranium ores. Common isotopes, such as, radioactive sulfur (S35), radioactive carbon (C14), radioactive phosphorus (P32) and strontium (Sr90) were a great safety hazard towards the environment and mammals. The amount of time it takes for half the radioactive isotope to disintegrate is called half-life. "Isotopes with a short half-life, measured in seconds, hours, or days, are considered generally less dangerous to the envioronment2." Isotopes with a high half-life are very harmful to our world; for example, plutonium in one of its forms (Pu239) has a half-life of over 20,000 years. There is so much heat given off that, in power reactors, the heat is used to generate electricity. These nuclear elements, mainly plutonium, was used to make the most destructive weapons ever to be built: nuclear missiles.
If you are trying to remove toxins from your body, then you should consider doing a Teatox, which is also known as a tea detox. There are many ways that you can benefit from doing a Teatox. Below is a list of reasons that you should try a Teatox:
Although Bismuth is mined in countries all over the world, including Peru, Japan, Mexico, and Canada, Bolivia is the world’s primary supplier of Bismuth. Bismuth only naturally occurs twice as much as gold in the Earth’s crust, but it is also a byproduct of smelting and refining many metals including gold, silver, lead, copper, and tin. Many compounds contain traces of Bismuth, such as bismuth subsalicylate, found in medical antacids such as Pepto-Bismol. Bismuth germinate is a scintillator, which emits light in response to gamma ray exposure, and is therefore highly valued in physics experiments. Other examples of compounds containing Bismuth include bismanol, a Bismuth-Magnesium combination used to create permanent magnets, used by the US Naval Surface Weapons Center, and bismuth telluride, a semiconductor and thermoelectric compound used in refrigerators. Bismuth is also a common component of makeup, paint, bullets, and alloys in detection systems and fire extinguishers. With all of these uses, it may come as a surprise that Bismuth is a radioactive material. Fortunately, the half-life of bismuth is 1.9×1019 (19,000,000,000,000,000,000) years
Technetium can exist in a large number of oxidation states such as Tc, Tc(III), Tc(IV), Tc(V), Tc(VI) and Tc(VII). It is produced in large amounts during the nuclear fission reaction of U235 and during production and testing of nuclear weapons (Yoshihara 1996). Technetium can precipitate out from the solution by oxidation as well as reduction reactions. During oxidation of Tc(III) and Tc(IV), hydrolysis reaction takes place which gives out precipitates of Technetium from the solution.
Airborne particles of beryllium metal, alloys, oxides, and ceramics are the key route of human exposure. Beryllium particles are respired into the lungs and upper respiratory tract. Hand-to-mouth exposures and skin contact with ultrafine particles can likewise happen. ("Beryllium", 2017) [2] Beryllium and its compounds are poisonous and cancer-causing. It is not good even in low doses as it causes temporary health problems such as eye and skin irritation. ("Beryllium - Element information,
In 1925, an epidemic of diphtheria had intruded the small town of Nome, Alaska, and other surrounding villages. During the time there was no way of getting to the small town by ship because the large ice pack intruding the waters and the two planes in Alaska at the time had already been dismantled and had put away for the winter. Alaskan officials had to quickly devise a plan that would save the people affected by the epidemic, many mostly children. They had devised a plan to run sled dog teams from checkpoint to checkpoint handing off the serum to the next musher in line. There were 20 different mushers and around 150 dogs that had took part of this feat. This feat later to be known was the Serum Run of 1925 or the Great Race of Mercy.
The unique set of elements known as the alkaline earth metals are key components to humanity and life as we know it. Without them, many things that we both love and need would be gone. These remarkably diverse yet very similar elements that make up the alkaline earth metals family are: Beryllium (Be), Magnesium (Mg), Calcium (Ca), Strontium (Sr), Barium (Ba), and Radium (Ra). Although this family is often overshadowed by the infamous alkali metals, you will soon learn how spectacular and brilliant these metals really are and their value to human life.
U-235, an isotope of Uranium, can be used in a fission bomb due to the fact that when its nucleus splits it gives off additional neutrons which may hit other uranium nuclei, causing them to split. This then creates a chain reaction and is why only small masses of uranium are required to release substantial amounts of energy (Bitesize, 2017). The most infamous example of how uranium has been used in this way, is the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima (Atomic Heritage Foundation, n.d.). The same properties that allow uranium to be used in a bomb, are valued in the world of nuclear energy. Nuclear power stations use energy from uranium to produce electricity and this production accounts for approximately 11 percent of the world’s electricity (Environmental protection Agency, 2016). Such uses are the main drivers for uranium exports and support the uranium industry in Australia, influencing social, economic and political aspects of
Amongst the numerous benefits of uranium mining, production of uranium from mining has a significant impact on sustainable global energy production. As seen in the table (Figure 3) extracted from the World Nuclear Association’s report on the benefits of using uranium as a primary source of obtaining electricity, Uranium generates the highest capacity of energy per kilogram when combusted, proving to be the most exothermic. Hence, being the most viable supply of energy in comparison to other fossil fuels, uranium mining has the potential to becoming a preeminent source of electricity in future.
There are many elements in the world and one of them is cobalt. It is a silvery blue metal with a blue coat. It is element number twenty-seven on the table, which means that it has twenty-seven protons and electrons. One mole or its atomic weight is 58.9 grams. It has a relatively high melting and boiling point, the melting point being 1,495 degrees Celsius or 2,723 Fahrenheit and the boiling point being 2,927 degrees Celsius or 5,301 Fahrenheit. The top three countries that mine this element are the District Republic of the Congo, Cuba, and Australia in that order. Cobalt has had and still has many uses in the world today. This element’s uses include alloys, electronics, chemicals, agriculture, and health industries. It is used in all of these industries in many ways. (Cobalt Periodic)
These elements are poisonous and are hard to clean from the environment because it is non-biodegradable.