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Re: HSC Chemistry Marathon 2016 Transuranic elements are produced by 1) Neutron bombardment or 2) Fusion reactions. More early transuranic elements were produced by bombarding heavy elements with neutrons in a reactor. By bombarding U-238, you get U-239 which beta decays to Np-239 and Pu-239...

Re: HSC Chemistry Marathon 2016 I'm a student from the US, but I learned that the alkene series is generally more reactive then the alkane series because of the following. Bonding can be perceived as the overlap of electron orbitals. A sigma bond (the only bond in an alkane) is a covalent...