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with higher atomic numbers have been first discovered in the laboratory, with neptunium and plutonium (the first two of these) later discovered in nature. They are all radioactive, with a half-life much shorter than the age of the Earth, so any primordial (i.e. present at the Earth's formation) atoms of these elements, have long since decayed. Trace amounts of neptunium

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