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He expected that bombarding uranium with slow moving neutrons would produce more transuranics.

From Scientific American • Sep. 7, 2023

Marissa Moss: wait a second, all along, we thought we were seeing transuranics, we weren't.

From Scientific American • Sep. 7, 2023

And that was what was chipping off was elements that were heavier than uranium, that—hence they were called transuranics.

From Scientific American • Sep. 7, 2023

Meitner and Hahn had published multiple papers on transuranics.

From Scientific American • Sep. 7, 2023

He also became known as the most assiduous and creative hunter of new elements in history, credited with the discovery or codiscovery of twelve transuranics.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik