curium
    n 1: a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by
         bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei [syn: curium,
         Cm, atomic number 96]

curium \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 10^7 years). The chemical symbol is Cm.

   Note: 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.

   Syn: Cm, atomic number 96.
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curium
Symbol: Cm
Atomic number: 96
Atomic weight: (247)
Radioactive metallic transuranic element. Belongs to actinoid series.
Nine known isotopes, Cm-247 has a half-life of 1.64*10^7 years. First
identified by Glenn T. Seaborg and associates in 1944, first produced by
L.B. Werner and I. Perlman in 1947 by bombarding americium-241 with
neutrons. Named for Marie Curie.