Word origin: The word technetium comes from the Greek technetos, artificial. Discovery: Technetium was the first element to be produced artificially. Element 43 was predicted on the basis of a gap ...

“No matter what happens, the price of molybdenum-99 will go up,” predicts Atcher. Cardiology investigations account for half of all U.S. technetium use, racking up about nine million ...

Millions of medical imaging procedures each year rely on radioactive technetium. One of its radioisotopes decays quickly and is useful as a tracer material in nuclear medicine. But another ...

Using thallium-201 (Tl-201) as a radiotracer substitute for technetium-99m (Tc-99m) could lead to more downstream testing, increased costs and more radiation exposure, according to research ...

The medical isotope technetium-99m (Tc-99m) could be made in hospitals rather than nuclear reactors. That is the conclusion of researchers in Canada, who have done theoretical modelling of how the ...

Could there be a deposit of naturally-occurring technetium out there somewhere?? If the early periodic table had been a party, technetium would have been a particularly late arrival. However its ...

Technetium carbide does not exist -- it was pure technetium that was mistakenly considered as such, say physicists. This is important from the view point of chemistry of transition metal carbides ...

Scientists in Canada are the first to make commercial quantities of the medical isotope technetium-99m using medical cyclotrons. The material is currently made in just a few ageing nuclear reactors ...