Actinide Series

a series of 14 radioactive elements in the periodic table with atomic numbers 89 to 102. Only the
first four elements in the series have been found in nature in appreciable amounts; the remainder
have been produced artificially. Those elements with atomic numbers of 93 and above, including
elements beyond the actinide series, are called transuranic elements. The elements constituting
the actinide series are, in order of increasing atomic number, actinium, thorium, protactinium,
uranium, neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium,
fermium, mendelevium, and nobelium.
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