Definitions
a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“The modern figure for the half-life of curium-242 is 163 days—more than five months.”
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01“Element with symbol Cm”6 letters
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