What does it mean for an element to be “synthetic”?

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For your homework from Wikipedia.

In chemistry, a synthetic element is a chemical element that does not occur naturally on Earth, and can only be created artificially. So far, 24 synthetic elements have been created (those with atomic numbers 95–118).

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