Lilac Neptunium Element Pillow on Leather Couch

Starting at $34.50

16"x 16" or 20"x 20"
Polyester, Cotton, or Outdoor Fabric
Zipper or Zipperless

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Neptunium

This pillow makes a perfect gift for your teen, science lover, best friend, child, and more! Choose from many different colors, two different sizes, 3 different fabrics, and if you'd like a zipper or not.

Its position in the periodic table just after uranium, named after the planet Uranus, led to it being named after Neptune, the next planet beyond Uranus. Although many false claims of its discovery were made over the years, the element was first synthesized by Edwin McMillan and Philip H. Abelson at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory in 1940. Since then, most neptunium has been and still is produced by neutron irradiation of uranium in nuclear reactors. The vast majority is generated as a by-product in conventional nuclear power reactors. While neptunium itself has no commercial uses at present, it is used as a precursor for the formation of plutonium-238, and in radioisotope thermal generators to provide electricity for spacecraft. Neptunium has also been used in detectors of high-energy neutrons.

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