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Plutonium - Periodic Table of Videos

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The team at periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about plutonium.

Plutonium-238 has a half-life of 88 years and is used as a heat source in radioisotope thermoelectric generators, which are used to power some spacecraft.

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