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curium

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun curium has 1 sense

curium(n = noun.substance) atomic number 96, cm - a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei; Array

is a kind of metal, metallic element

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CIDE DICTIONARY

curium, n. [after Pierre and Marie Curie.].

a radioactive transuranic element of atomic number 96, having an atomic weight of 247 for its most stable isotope (half-life 1.6 x 107 years). The chemical symbol is Cm.

"It was first prepared in 1944 by helium-ion bombardment of plutonium in a cyclotron by Glenn Seaborg and colleagues in California. It has never been detected in nature, though minute quantities may exist in uranium deposits as a consequence of the neutron flux there." [WordNet 1.5]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

curium, n. an artificially made transuranic radioactive metallic element, first produced by bombarding plutonium with helium ions.

Usage

Symb.: Cm.

Etymology

M. Curie d. 1934 and P. Curie d. 1906, Fr. scientists

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