curium
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.
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Meaning
2 senses(uncountable)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.
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a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei
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.
(countable)An atom of this element.
Examples
2 sentencesThe element I'm referring to is curium.
Curium is a radioactive metal with element symbol Cm and atomic number 96.
Translations
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Origin
From Curie + -ium (suffix forming names of metallic elements), coined by the American scieFrom 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.
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Forms
plural: curiumsSynonyms
2 synonyms- a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei:Cmatomic number 96
Word family
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