A deep dive into technetium, the first artificially created element. From Mendeleev’s eka-manganese and the hunt for a missing piece to Perrier and Segre’s cyclotron breakthrough, and the modern use of technetium-99m in millions of medical scans each year via Mo-99 generators—how a nuclear byproduct became a life-saving tool.

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