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Lawrence E. Glendenin
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Lawrence E. Glendenin

American chemist
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  • promethium
    promethium

    Marinsky, Lawrence E. Glendenin, and Charles D. Coryell, who isolated the radioactive isotopes promethium-147 (2.62-year half-life) and promethium-149 (53-hour half-life) from uranium fission products at Clinton Laboratories (now Oak Ridge National Laboratory) in Tennessee. Identification was firmly established by ion-exchange

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    Marinsky, Lawrence E. Glendenin, and Charles D. Coryell, who isolated the radioactive isotopes promethium-147 (2.62-year half-life) and promethium-149 (53-hour half-life) from uranium fission products at Clinton Laboratories (now Oak Ridge National Laboratory) in Tennessee. Identification was firmly established by ion-exchange

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