Curium (96Cm) is an artificial element with an atomic number of 96. Because it is an artificial element, a standard atomic weight cannot be given, and...

Curium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Cm and atomic number 96. This transuranic actinide element was named after eminent scientists Marie...

although plutonium-242 needs to absorb 3 neutrons before becoming fissile curium-245; in thermal reactors isotopic degradation limits the plutonium recycle...

Kawasaki, Hiromitsu (2002). "Critical and Subcritical Mass Calculations of Curium-243 to -247 Based on JENDL-3.2 for Revision of ANSI/ANS-8.15". Journal of...

Kawasaki, Hiromitsu (2002). "Critical and Subcritical Mass Calculations of Curium-243 to -247 Based on JENDL-3.2 for Revision of ANSI/ANS-8.15". Journal of...

with the associated emission of neutrons. More long-lived isotopes of curium (245–248Cm, all α-emitters) are formed as a mixture during neutron irradiation...

americium-243 to curium-244 to curium-245 uranium-236 to neptunium-237 to plutonium-238 to plutonium-239 americium-241 to curium-242 to curium-243 (or, more...

takes three neutron absorptions to become another fissile isotope (either curium-245 or 241Pu) and fission. Even then, there is a chance either of those two...

experiments from 2004 to 2006, the team replaced the curium-248 target with the lighter curium isotope curium-245. Here evidence was found for the two isotopes...

144 curium-246 4,760 150 carbon-14 5,730 181 plutonium-240 6,561 207.0 thorium-229 7,340 232 americium-243 7,370 233 curium-250 8,300 260 curium-245 8,500...

takes three neutron absorptions to become another fissile isotope (either curium-245 or plutonium-241) and then one more neutron to undergo fission. Even then...

56 ka), americium-241 (432 years), americium-243 (7.37 ka), curium-245 (8.50 ka), and curium-246 (4.73 ka). These can be recovered by nuclear reprocessing...

Curium(III) oxide is a compound composed of curium and oxygen with the chemical formula Cm2O3. It is a crystalline solid with a unit cell that contains...

(then the University of California Radiation Laboratory) by bombarding curium with alpha particles (helium-4 ions). It is an actinide element, the sixth...

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Wakō, Japan began bombarding curium-248 targets with a vanadium-51 beam in January 2018 to search for element 119. Curium was chosen as a target, rather...

minor actinides include neptunium (element 93), americium (element 95), curium (element 96), berkelium (element 97), californium (element 98), einsteinium...

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(1940–41), and curium and americium (1944), representing elements 93 to 96. The first two of these were eventually found in nature as well. Curium and americium...

experienced unexpected difficulties in isolating the elements americium and curium, as they were believed to be part of a fourth series of transition metals...

thus the only element named specifically after a non-mythological woman (curium being named for both Pierre and Marie Curie). Meitnerium has no stable or...

"1865", recorded by Jamaican reggae band Third World. The atomic number of curium, an actinide. Messier 96, a magnitude 10.5 spiral galaxy in the constellation...

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stability of nuclei quickly decreases with the increase in atomic number after curium, element 96, whose most stable isotope, 247Cm, has a half-life four orders...

proactinium hexafluoride". Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry Letters. 14 (6–7): 245–247. doi:10.1016/0020-1650(78)80069-5. Nishikida, Koichi; Williams, Ffrancon;...

Letters, pp. 43–46. Moran, William L. 1987, 1992. The Amarna Letters. EA 245, "To the Queen Mother: Some Missing Gold Statues", pp. 84–86. "Akhenaten"...

non-alkali metals. Unlike the lighter actinides californium, berkelium, curium and americium, which crystallize in a double hexagonal structure at ambient...

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have also been possible thermochromatographic identifications of it and curium hexafluoride (CmF6), but it is debated if these are conclusive. Palladium...