Element of the week: curium This week, we meet the element curium, which has the atomic symbol
Element of the week: curium This week, we meet the element curium, which has the atomic symbol Cmand the atomic number 96. This element was named in honour of Marie and Pierre Curie, who discovered the element, radium. The atomic symbol was chosen because it was the initials used by Marie Curie. Curium is a dense and hard transuranic element that is silvery-white in appearance. It is very reactive, tarnishing in the presence of oxygen, steam, acids and even dry nitrogen. Thanks to nuclear weapons explosions, tests and accidents, it is present in trace amounts in the wild, although it also can be found in highly-concentrated uranium-containing mineral deposits. -- source link
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