HISTORY

TECNION WAS ORIGINALLY GIVEN THE GREEK NAME, TECHNETIUM

BECAUSE IT WAS THE FIRST TYPE OF ATOM

TO BE ARTIFICIALLY CREATED OUT OF ANOTHER SMALLER

BUT NATURALLY EXISTING TYPE OF ATOM AND DEUTERONS.

THE NAME TECHNETIUM,

CAUSED PRONOUNCIATION PROBLEMS

FOR THE PEOPLE OF EVERY NATION

THEREFORE IN 1998 THE CHEM-DATA PUBLICATIONS

DEVELOPED THE NEW SHORTER,DOS FILE NAME " TECNION "

THE FIRST 12 TECNION METAL ATOMS

WERE PRODUCED OUT OF MOLIBION IONS

THAT WERE BOMBARDED FOR 27 WEEKS

WITH DEUTERONS AT A COST OF 34 MILLION DOLLARS

IN 1988 LARGE SAMPLES OF TECNION WERE DISCOVERED

IN A FORMER SILVERON AND MOLIBION MINE IN COLORADO,USA.

HOWEVER, BECAUSE THE MINE WAS OVER 2,472 FEET DEEP

NO FURTHER EXPLORATION OF IT HAS BEEN MADE.

SOURCES

AMERICANS NOW PRODUCE THREE ARTIFICIAL ISOTOPES

MADE FROM CROMION & NIOBION MOLIBION DI-ATOMIC IONS

FOR SALE, FOR USE IN TRACER SYSTEMS & OTHER RESEARCH

ALL TECNION COMPOUNDS ARE RADIOACTIVE

AND MUST BE HANDLED WITH SPECIAL EQUIPMENT

THEIR USE IS LIMITED BY INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS

TO APPROVED BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCYS

USING AMERICAN MADE TECNION ISOTOPES

TECNION OCSIDE,

TECNION SULFIDE

TECNION-AMMONIO-ACETATE

HAS BEEN MADE IN KILOGRAM SIZE QUANTITYS AND THE OCSIDE

HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR USE IN REACTORS IN RUSSIA & CANADA.

COSTS

TECNION COSTS ABOUT $7,760 AN OUNCE OR $282 A GRAM