Californium is a synthetic element in the periodic table that has the symbol Cf and atomic number 98. A radioactive transuranic element, californium has very few uses and was discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particles (helium ions). Californium - Notable characteristics. Weighable amounts of californium make it possible to determine some of its properties using macroscopic quantities. Californium-252 (2.6 year half-life) is a very strong neutron emitter and is thus extremely radioactive and ...

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Curium is a synthetic element in the periodic table that has the symbol Cm and atomic number 96. A radioactive metallic transuranic element of the actinide series, curium is produced by bombarding plutonium with alpha particles (helium ions) and was named for Marie Curie and her husband Pierre. Curium - Notable characteristics. The isotope curium-248 has been synthesized only in milligram quantities, but curium-242 and curium-244 are made in multigram amounts, which allows for the determination of so ...

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Berkelium is a synthetic element in the periodic table that has the symbol Bk and atomic number 97. A radioactive metallic element in the actinide series, berkelium was first synthesized by bombarding americium with alpha particles (helium ions) and was named after Berkeley, California. Berkelium was the fifth transuranic element to be synthesized. Berkelium - Notable characteristics. Weighable amounts of berkelium-249 (half-life 314 days) make it possible to determine some of its properties using macroscop ...

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Dubnium (formerly also called Eka-Tantalum, Hahnium and Unnilpentium) is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Db and atomic number 105. This is a highly radioactive synthetic element whose most stable isotope has a half life of 16 hours (dubnium-268). This relatively high stability compared to the surrounding elements on the periodic table gives evidence that by manipulating the number of neutrons in a nucleus, ...

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Americium is a synthetic element in the periodic table that has the symbol Am and atomic number 95. A radioactive metallic element, americium is an actinide that was obtained by bombarding plutonium with neutrons and was the fourth transuranic element to be discovered. It was named for the Americas, by analogy with europium. Americium - Notable characteristics. Freshly prepared americium metal has a white and silvery luster, at room temperatures it slowly tarnishes in dry air. It is more silvery than pluton ...

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Nobelium (named for Alfred Nobel) was first synthesized by Albert Ghiorso, Glenn T. Seaborg, John R. Walton and Torbjørn Sikkeland in April 1958 at the University of California, Berkeley. The team used the new heavy-ion linear accelerator (HILAC) to bombard a curium target (95% Cm-244 and 4.5% Cm-246) with carbon-12 ions to make nobelium-254 (half-life 55 seconds). Their work was confirmed by Soviet researchers in Dubna. A year earlier, however, physicists at the Nobel Institute in Sweden announced that they had synthesized an isotop ...

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Weighable amounts of berkelium-249 (half-life 314 days) make it possible to determine some of its properties using macroscopic quantities. As of 2004 it had not been isolated in its elemental form, but it is predicted to be a silvery metal that would easily oxidize in air at elevated temperatures and would be soluble in dilute mineral acids. X-ray diffraction techniques have been used to identify various berkelium compounds such as berkelium dioxide (BkO2), berkelium fluoride (BkF3), berkelium oxychloride (BkOCl) ...

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Fermium (after Enrico Fermi) was first discovered by a team led by Albert Ghiorso in 1952. The team found fermium-255 in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion (see Operation Ivy). That isotope was created when uranium-238 combined with 17 neutrons in the intense temperature and pressure of the explosion (eight beta decays also occurred to create the element). The work was overseen by the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, an ...

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93 neptunium Np 94 plutonium Pu 95 americium Am 96 curium Cm 97 berkelium Bk 98 californium Cf 99 einsteinium Es 100 fermium Fm 101 mendelevium Md 102 nobelium No 103 lawrencium Lr 104 rutherfordium Rf 105 dubnium Db 106 seaborgium Sg 107 bohrium Bh 108 hassium Hs 109 meitnerium Mt 110 darmstadtium Ds 111 roentgenium Rg 112 ununbium Uub* 113 ununtrium Uut* 114 u ...

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The isotope curium-248 has been synthesized only in milligram quantities, but curium-242 and curium-244 are made in multigram amounts, which allows for the determination of some of the element's properties. Curium-244 can be made in quantity by subjecting plutonium to neutron bombardment. Very small amounts of curium may exist in uranium ore as a daughter product of natural decay. There are few commercial applications for curium but it may one day be useful in radioisotope thermoelectric generators. Curium bio-accumulates in bone tissue where its radiation destroys b ...

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Einsteinium was first identified in December 1952 by Albert Ghiorso at the University of California, Berkeley and another team headed by G.R. Choppin at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Both were examining debris from the first hydrogen bomb test of November, 1952 (see Operation Ivy). They discovered the isotope einsteinium-253 (half-life 20.5 days) that was made by the nuclear fusion of 15 neutrons with uranium-238 (which then went through seven beta decays). These findings were kept secret until ...

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Of Swedish ancestry, Seaborg was born in Ishpeming, Michigan, grew up in South Gate, California (a suburb next to Watts in Los Angeles), took his bachelors degree at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1934, where he joined Alpha Chi Sigma, and his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley in 1937. He lived most of his retired life in Lafayette, California. He followed Frederick Soddy's work investigating isotopes, and d ...

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The appearance of this element is unknown, however it is most likely silvery-white or gray and metallic. If sufficient amounts of lawrencium were produced, it would pose a radiation hazard. Very little is known about the chemical properties of this element but some preliminary work on a few atoms has indicated that it behaves similarly to the actinides. Element 103 is a d-block element analogous to lutetium and therefore is increasingly being placed with the other d-block elements in the transition metal chemical series, but it is still most o ...

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Element 106 was discovered almost simultaneously by two different laboratories. In June 1974, a Soviet team led by G. N. Flerov at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna reported producing an isotope with mass number 259 and a half-life of 0.48 s, and in September 1974, an American research team led by Albert Ghiorso at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley reported creating an isotope with mas ...

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Californium was first synthesized by University of California, Berkeley researchers Stanely Thompson, Kenneth Street, Jr., Albert Ghiorso and Glenn T. Seaborg in 1950. It was the sixth transuranium element to be discovered and the team announced their discovery on March 17, 1950. It was named after the U.S. state of California and for the University of California system. To produce element 98, the team bombarded a microgram-sized target of curium-242 with 35 MeV alpha particles in the 60-inch Berkeley cyclotron which produced atoms of californium-245 (ha ...

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In 1939 he became an instructor in chemistry at UC Berkeley, was promoted to professor in 1945, and served as chancellor from 1958 to 1961. (In an amusing quirk, his last name is an anagram of the popular Berkeley cheer, "Go Bears!") He is credited for discovering and isolating plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, and californium at Berkeley (the last four of which he codiscovered with Albert Ghiorso) and, with Edwin McMillan, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951 for the c ...

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In 1942, Seaborg married Helen Griggs, the secretary of Ernest Lawrence. Under wartime pressure, Seaborg had moved to Chicago, Illinois. Later, when Seaborg returned to collect Griggs for them to be together, they took the train from Los Angeles to Chicago. They got off in Caliente, Nevada for what they thought would be a quick wedding, but when they asked for City Hall, they found Caliente had none—they would have to go 25 miles north to Pioche, the county seat. Happily, one of Caliente's newest deputy sheriffs turned out to be a r ...

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Super-heavy atoms are the transactinide elements beginning with rutherfordium (atomic number 104). They have all been made artificially and currently have no practical purpose because their half-lives do not allow the element to survive longer than a few minutes to just a few milliseconds, thus making the element extremely hard to study and serve no purpose other than research. Super-heavy atoms have all been created during the latter half of the 20th century and are continually being created during the 21st century as technology adva ...

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