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- CURIUM
- Atomic symbol - Cm
- Atomic weight - (247.0703)
- Atomic number - 96
- Electron configuration - 2-8-18-32-25-9-2
- Oxidation states - +3
- State of matter - synthetic
- Heavy metal-ductile
- Discovered in 1944 by Glenn T. Seaborg, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso
- Boils at unknown, melts at approx. 1340 ¯C
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- Notes:
- Curium is a radioactive element that has a silvery color. Isotopes 242 and 244
- are suited for use in space because they can be used as compact, long-lived
- sources of electricity from the conversion of heat from radioactive decay by
- thermoelectric and thermoionic devices.
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