curium
nounEtymology
From Curie + -ium (suffix forming names of metallic elements), coined by the American scientists Glenn T. Seaborg (1912–1999), Ralph A. James (1920–1973), and Albert Ghiorso (1915–2010), who synthesized the element in 1944 and named it in honour of Pierre Curie (1859–1906) and Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867–1934) who, with Henri Becquerel, were awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries in radioactivity.
- borrowed from curie
Definitions
A radioactive and highly fissile, silver-grey, metallic, transuranic chemical element…
A radioactive and highly fissile, silver-grey, metallic, transuranic chemical element (symbol Cm) with an atomic number of 96, which is artificially produced in a particle accelerator.
- The modern figure for the half-life of curium-242 is 163 days—more than five months.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for curium. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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