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cu·ri·um C0813900 (kyo͝or′ē-əm)n. Symbol Cm A silvery metallic synthetic radioactive transuranic element, having isotopes with mass numbers ranging from 233 to 252. The most stable isotope (Cm-247) has a half-life of 15.6 million years. Atomic number 96; melting point 1,345°C; specific gravity (calculated) 13.51; valence 3, 4. See Periodic Table.
[After Marie Curie and Pierre Curie.]curium (ˈkjʊərɪəm) n (Elements & Compounds) a silvery-white metallic transuranic element artificially produced from plutonium. Symbol: Cm; atomic no: 96; half-life of most stable isotope, 247Cm: 1.6 x 107 years; valency: 3 and 4; relative density: 13.51 (calculated); melting pt: 1345±400°C[C20: New Latin, named after Pierre and Marie Curie]cu•ri•um (ˈkyʊər i əm)
n. a synthetic radioactive element produced from plutonium. Symbol: Cm; at. no.: 96. [1946; after M. and P. Curie; see -ium2] cu·ri·um (kyo͝or′ē-əm) Symbol Cm A synthetic, silvery-white, radioactive metallic element of the actinide series that is produced artificially from plutonium or americium. Curium isotopes are used to provide electricity for satellites and space probes. Its most stable isotope has a half-life of 16.4 million years. Atomic number 96. See Periodic Table.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  curium - a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nucleiatomic number 96, Cmmetal, metallic element - any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc. |
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curium (kyo͝or`ēəm), artificially produced radioactive chemical element; symbol Cm; at. no. 96; mass no. of most stable isotope 247; m.p. about 1,340°C;; b.p. 3,110°C;; sp. gr. 13.5 (calculated); valence +3, +4. A hard, brittle, silvery metal that tarnishes in air, curium is chemically reactive and resembles gadolinium in its chemical properties, although it has a more complex crystalline structure. Oxides, fluorides, a chloride, a bromide, and an iodide of curium have been prepared. Curium is a member of the actinide seriesactinide series,
a series of radioactive metallic elements in Group 3 of the periodic table. Members of the series are often called actinides, although actinium (at. no. 89) is not always considered a member of the series.
..... Click the link for more information. in Group 3 of the periodic tableperiodic table,
chart of the elements arranged according to the periodic law discovered by Dmitri I. Mendeleev and revised by Henry G. J. Moseley. In the periodic table the elements are arranged in columns and rows according to increasing atomic number (see the table entitled
..... Click the link for more information. . Sixteen isotopes of curium are known. Curium-242, prepared by neutron bombardment of americium-241, has a half-lifehalf-life,
measure of the average lifetime of a radioactive substance (see radioactivity) or an unstable subatomic particle. One half-life is the time required for one half of any given quantity of the substance to decay.
..... Click the link for more information. of 163 days; curium-247, the most stable isotope, has a half-life of 15.6 million years. Some curium isotopes are available in multigram quantities. Curium is intensely radioactive; it is about 3,000 times as radioactive as radiumradium
[Lat. radius=ray], radioactive metallic chemical element; symbol Ra; at. no. 88; mass number of most stable isotope 226; m.p. 700°C;; b.p. 1,140°C;; sp. gr. about 6.0; valence +2. Radium is a lustrous white radioactive metal.
..... Click the link for more information. . It is also very toxic when absorbed into the body because it accumulates in the bones and disrupts the formation of red blood cells. Curium-242 and curium-244 are used in the space program as a heat source (from the heat they generate as they undergo radioactive decay) for compact thermionic and thermoelectric power generation. Curium has not been found to occur naturally; it was the third transuranium elementtransuranium elements,
in chemistry, radioactive elements with atomic numbers greater than that of uranium (at. no. 92). All the transuranium elements of the actinide series were discovered as synthetic radioactive isotopes at the Univ.
..... Click the link for more information. to be synthesized. Curium was first produced by the bombardment of plutonium-239 with alpha particles in a cyclotron at the Univ. of California at Berkeley. Identified in 1944 by Glenn T. SeaborgSeaborg, Glenn Theodore
, 1912–99, American chemist, b. Ishpeming, Mich., grad. Univ. of California at Los Angeles, 1934, Ph.D. Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1937.
..... Click the link for more information. , Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso, it was named for Pierre and Marie CurieCurie
, family of French scientists. Pierre Curie, 1859–1906, scientist, and his wife, Marie Sklodowska Curie, 1867–1934, chemist and physicist, b. Warsaw, are known for their work on radioactivity and on radium.
..... Click the link for more information. , the noted pioneers in the study of radioactivity. The metal was first isolated in visible amounts as the hydroxide by L. B. Werner and I. Perlman in 1947. Curium Cm, an artificially obtained radioactive chemical element of the actinide series. Atomic number, 96. It has no stable isotopes. Curium was first obtained in 1944 by the American scientists G. Seaborg, R. James, and A. Ghiorso by the nuclear reaction 23992Pu(α,n)24296Cm. It was named in honor of P. Curie and M. Sklodowska Curie, the founders of the science of radioactivity. Isotopes of curium with the mass numbers 238–250 are known. The most long-lived isotope is 247Cm (half-life T1/2 = 1.64 × 107 years). Some isotopes of curium may be accumulated in atomic reactors (244Cm, T1/2 = 17.59 years, and other isotopes) in kilogram quantities by long-term irradiation of either plutonium or uranium with neutrons. Curium is a shiny silvery metal with a melting point of 1340°C; its calculated density is about 13 g/cm3. The most typical oxidation state of curium is + 3, as is that of the other heavy actinides. The compounds Cm2O3, CmCl3, and others have been synthesized. However, stable compounds of curium with the +4 state are also known (CmO)2, CmF4). Curium may be separated from other actinides by ion-exchange methods. The intense evolution of heat by compounds of curium is caused by its radioactive disintegration. This property makes it possible to use the isotopes 242Cm, 244Cm, and others in the construction of small-scale sources of electric energy. The work span of such generators may be as high as several months. S. S. BERDONOSOV curium[′kyu̇r·ē·əm] (chemistry) An element, symbol Cm, atomic number 96; the isotope of mass 244 is the principal source of this artificially produced element. curium a silvery-white metallic transuranic element artificially produced from plutonium. Symbol: Cm; atomic no.: 96; half-life of most stable isotope, 247Cm: 1.6 x 107 years; valency: 3 and 4; relative density: 13.51 (calculated); melting pt.: 1345±400°C. curium
curium (Cm) [ku´re-um] a chemical element, atomic number 96, atomic weight 247. (See Appendix 6.)cu·ri·um (Cm), (kyū'rē-ŭm), An element, atomic no. 96, atomic wt. 247.07, not occurring naturally on earth, and first formed artificially in 1944 by bombarding 239Pu with alpha particles; the most stable of the curium isotopes is 247Cm, with a half-life of 15.6 million years. See: curie. [Marie and Pierre Curie] cu·ri·um (Cm) (kyūr'ē-ŭm) An element,atomic no. 96, atomic wt. 247.07, not occurring naturally on earth, but first formed artificially in 1944 by bombarding 239Pu with alpha particles; the most stable of the curium isotopes is 247Cm, with a half-life of 15.6 million years. [Marie and Pierre Curie]FinancialSeeCMSee COMSEC Module
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