Plutonium Pu · 94
solid metal · period 7 · f-block· actinide
Anatomy
Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Plutonium
History of the character
Every form found in the sources, from the first missionary chemistry books of the 1850s to the current standards. Hover a dot for the source. Simplified 钚, traditional 鈈, Taiwan 鈽 bù.
- 1951 鈈 bù 化學命名原則（修訂） Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, PRC revision, Academia Sinica / Ministry of Education, PRC
- today 鈽 bù 臺灣正體（國家教育研究院） Current Taiwan standard, National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Elsewhere
Japanese プルトニウム Korean 플루토늄 Vietnamese plutoni
Western name from Greek via Latin Πλούτων (Ploutōn) via "Pluto", “god of wealth”. Compare all
Unicode
U+949A in CJK Unified Ideographs
Element discovered 1940--41.