{"id":2772,"date":"2026-06-19T23:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2026-06-19T23:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:06:21","slug":"promethium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/promethium\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Promethium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Promethium is a radioactive lanthanide produced synthetically and found only in trace amounts as fission product or made in reactors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Promethium<\/strong> | It exhibits typical lanthanide chemistry, is radioactive with no stable isotopes and has limited commercial uses due to scarcity and radioactivity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Promethium<\/strong> | Used in research, luminous paint historically and as a beta source for thickness gauges and nuclear batteries in specialized applications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Promethium<\/strong> | Promethium isotopes e.g., Pm 147 are radioactive and require radiological controls for handling, storage and disposal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare radioactive lanthanide used in research and niche power sources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5881,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions\/5881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}