Investing in Technetium

Technetium is an extremely rare transition metal. It is the lightest radioactive element and is in Group 7 between manganese and rhenium. The metastable nuclear isomer technetium-99m is commonly used in nuclear medicine. It is produced by the decay of molybdenum-99. Most technetium is produced as a fission product of uranium and plutonium.

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