Sherr has done a proving with
Plutonium nitricum (will be published shortly) in which several themes came up clearly to give us a good overall picture of this remedy.
Plutonium is one of the Actinides, the elements which come after
Actinium, the third element in the
Uranium series. The Actinides are very similar to
Actinium, just as the
Lanthanides are very similar to
Lanthanum, the third element in the
Gold series. We can therefore probably apply the concepts of
Stage 3 to the Actinides, and also to
Plutonium.
SignaturePlutonium is named after Pluto, the God of the underworld, the world of ghosts and spirits. The Greek name for Pluto was Hades. The element was discovered in 1930 and its chemical symbol is Pu.
It is a silvery metal which has 6 different crystalline forms. It is rather reactive and oxidises when exposed to air, forming the yellow coloured plutoniumoxide.
It is also radioactive and the main isotope has a half life of 24360 years. It is usually manufactured artificially in nuclear reactors. It is mainly used to make atom bombs.