Look up: curium

1. curium
   [n] - a radioactive transuranic metallic element
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2. Curium
   Manmade radioactive element produced from americium. Symbol Cm
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3. curium
   chemical element:atomic number 96 Category: Chemistry
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4. curium
   <chemical> A radioactive actinide with atomic symbol cm, atomic number 96, and atomic weight 247. Thirteen curium isotopes have been produced with mass numbers ranging from 238-250. Its valence can be +3 or +4. It is intensely radioactive and decays by alpha-emission. ... Chemical name: Curium ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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5. curium
   Cm noun a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei
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6. curium
   (Cm) (kūr´e-әm) a chemical element, atomic number 96, atomic weight 247.
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7. Curium
   (from the article `Cyprus`) ...of the Peloponnesian origin—and specifically of the Arcadian origin—of the immigrants. They founded new cities, which became the capitals of six ...
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8. curium
   synthetic chemical element of the actinoid series of the periodic table, atomic number 96. Undetected in nature, curium (as the isotope curium-242) ... [2 related articles]
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9. curium
   curium (kyoor'ēum) , artificially produced radioactive chemical element; symbol Cm; at. no. 96; mass no. of most stable isotope 247; m.p. about 1,340°C; b.p. 3,110°C; sp. gr. 13.5 (calculated); valence +3, +4. A hard, brittle, silvery metal that tarnishes in air, curium is chemical...
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10. curium
    (Cm) Type: Term Pronunciation: kyū′rē-ŭm Definitions: 1. An element, atomic no. 96, atomic wt. 247.07, not occurring naturally on earth, and first formed artificially in 1944 by bombarding 239Pu with alpha particles; the most stable of the curium isotopes is 247Cm, with a half-life of 15.6 million years. See: curie &...
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11. curium
    Synthesized, radioactive, metallic element of the actinide series, atomic number 96, relative atomic mass 247. It is produced by bombarding plutonium or americium with neutrons. Its longest-lived isotope has a half-life of 1.7 × 10⁷ years
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12. Curium
    `Curium` ( ) is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol `Cm` and atomic number 96. This radioactive transuranic element of the actinide series was named after Marie Skłodowska-Curie and her husband Pierre Curie. Curium was first intentionally produced and identified in summer 1944 by the gr...
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