• DOI:10.1038/234132A0
Corpus ID: 4283169

Detection of Plutonium-244 in Nature

@article{Hoffman1971DetectionOP,
  title={Detection of Plutonium-244 in Nature},
  author={D. Hoffman and F. O. Lawrence and J. L. Mewherter and F. Rourke},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1971},
  volume={234},
  pages={132-134}
}

• D. Hoffman, F. O. Lawrence, +1 author F. Rourke
• Published 1971
• Chemistry
• Nature

Mass spectrometric measurements of plutonium isolated from Precambrian bastnasite confirm the presence of 244Pu in nature. Although the existence of 244Pu as an extinct radioactivity has been postulated to explain the xenon isotope ratios observed in meteorites, this is the first indication of its present existence in nature.