Chemical Symbol Pa (+ Cool facts: Color, Uses and more...) 2022

Every chemical element has its own symbol to represent them. But what is the Pa element?

The answer is Protactinium, whose symbol is Pa, and there's a lot of cool facts about it that most people don't know. Let me walk you through...

Protactinium Overview

Chemical Symbol

Pa (Protactinium)

Uses

It has no significant commercial applications.

State at 20 °C

solid

Description

Very rare, silvery-white, extremely radioactive metal.

Name Origin

Greek: proto and actinium (parent of actinium); it forms actinium when it radioactively decays.

Sources

Does not occur in nature. Found among fission products of uranium, thorium, and plutonium.

Atomic Number

91

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Atomic Mass

231,03588

Discovery

Discovered By: Fredrich Soddy, John Cranston, Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner

Year: 1917

Location: England/France

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