Multiple choice

What was the first element to be produced artificially?

  1. Technetium

  2. Francium

  3. Neptunium

  4. Plutonium

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Explanation

Technetium, with atomic number 43, was the first element to be produced artificially in 1937. Its name is derived from the Greek word for artificial.