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Technetium: Artificial Radioactive Tracer

Technetium, with the atomic number 43, was the first artificially created element in 1937. It is the lightest element with all radioactive isotopes, produced as a fission waste product. Technetium is commonly used as a radioactive tracer for medical imaging of various organs.

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Technetium: Artificial Radioactive Tracer

Technetium, with the atomic number 43, was the first artificially created element in 1937. It is the lightest element with all radioactive isotopes, produced as a fission waste product. Technetium is commonly used as a radioactive tracer for medical imaging of various organs.

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TECHNETIUM

Tc
43 [98]

ARTIFICIAL RADIOACTIVE MEDICINE

Technetium was the first Technetium is the lightest Technetium is used as


element in the periodic element whose isotopes are a radioactive tracer for
table to be made artificially, all radioactive. It’s produced imaging of various organs
by Italian scientists in 1937. as a fission waste product. in the body.

Ci © 2019 Andy Brunning/Royal Society of Chemistry


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