einsteinium
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a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
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Einsteinium can be purchased on the following cryptocurrency exchanges: Poloniex, Bittrex, Upbit and Cryptopia.
However, even this small critical mass greatly exceeds the total amount of einsteinium isolated thus far, especially of the rare 254 Es isotope.
Experiments have been performed on injecting einsteinium citrate (as well as fermium compounds) to dogs.
In particular, einsteinium was used to synthesize, for the first time, 17 atoms of the new element mendelevium in 1955.
In the case of light-ion bombardment inside a cyclotron, the heavy ion target is attached to a thin foil, and the generated einsteinium is simply washed off the foil after the irradiation.
In this case, isolation of einsteinium is a tedious procedure which involves several repeating steps of cation exchange, at elevated temperature and pressure, and chromatography.