• 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...
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  • Curium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Cm and atomic number 96. This transuranic actinide element was named after eminent scientists Marie...
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    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...
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  • promethium-147, and technetium-99 have been tested. Plutonium-238, curium-242, curium-244 and strontium-90 have been used. Besides the nuclear properties...
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    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...
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    radioactive decay of unstable atoms. A common source of alpha particles is curium-244. It emits particles with an energy of 5.8 MeV. X-rays of 14 and 18 keV...
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  • Plutonium-240 is an isotope of plutonium Heavier: plutonium-241 Decay product of: curium-244 (α) neptunium-240 (β−) Decay chain of plutonium-240 Decays to: uranium-236...
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    (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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    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...
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  • 10300000 2004 CRC Handbook (ORNL) 96 244Cm Curium-244 13.51 0 185000000 2.50×109 2004 CRC Handbook (ORNL) 96 248Cm Curium-248 13.51 0 160×109 2.16×1012 2004 CRC...
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    thirty atomic isotopes within the entire table of nuclides. Plutonium-238, curium-244, strontium-90, and most recently americium-241 are the most often cited...
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  • minutes 103 seconds curium-251 16.8 1.01 uranium-242 16.8 1.01 californium-244 19.4 1.16 bismuth-214 19.9 1.19 francium-212 20.0 1.20 curium-237 20 1.2 carbon-11...
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    would require heavy shielding. Radioisotopes such as plutonium-238, curium-242, curium-244 and strontium-90 have been used. Tritium, nickel-63, promethium-147...
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    received its first shipment of off-site spent nuclear fuel. That same year, curium-244 was produced as a heat source for space exploration. This was the first...
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    radioactive source contained in the instrument. The instrument had a curium-244 source that emits alpha particles with an energy of 5.8 MeV and a half-life...
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    1.6 GeV protons) Muon-catalyzed fusion 7 GeV. As an alternative, the curium-244, with a half-life of 18 years, could be left to decay into plutonium-240...
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    ^{244}_{95}Am ->[\beta^-][10.1 \ {\ce {h}}]}}&{\ce {^{244}_{96}Cm}}\\&{\ce {^{244}_{96}Cm ->[{\ce {5(n,\gamma)}}] ^{249}_{96}Cm}}\end{aligned}}} Curium-249...
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    trap," forms the center of the core. The target is typically loaded with curium-244 and other transplutonic isotopes and is positioned on the reactor vertical...
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    in the transuranic series, it was discovered fourth, after the heavier curium. The discovery was kept secret and only released to the public in November...
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    vessel atmosphere came from spontaneous nuclear fission with curium-242 and curium-244, substances that were present in the nuclear fuel. A critical...
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  • range of physical properties. While actinium and the late actinides (from curium onwards) behave similarly to the lanthanides, the elements thorium, protactinium...
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    towards lanthanide-like behaviour is only clear at curium: the elements between uranium and curium form a transition from transition-metal-like behaviour...
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    Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. 26 (2): 244–248. Bibcode:1969JPSJ...26..244K. doi:10.1143/jpsj.26.244. Buschow, K. H. J. (1974). "Magnetic properties...
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  • not found on Earth, but for which decay products are present: Plutonium-244 and samarium-146 have half-lives long enough to still be present on Earth...
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    Radium Actinium Thorium Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawrencium...
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  • f-block groups 7 f-block [243] 12 1449 2880 – 1.13 – synthetic solid 96 Cm Curium Pierre and Marie Curie, physicists and chemists f-block groups 7 f-block...
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  • 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...
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    minor actinides include neptunium (element 93), americium (element 95), curium (element 96), berkelium (element 97), californium (element 98), einsteinium...
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  • Physics in Sweden in 1957. The team reported that they had bombarded a curium target with carbon-13 ions for twenty-five hours in half-hour intervals...
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  • 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...
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