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- Name : Californium
- Symbol : Cf
- Atomic # : 98
- Atom weight: 251 (Heaviest isotope)
- Melting P. :
- Boiling P. :
- Oxidation : +3, +4
- Pronounced : kal-eh-FOR-ni-em
- From : Named for the State and University of California
- Identified : Stanley G. Thompson, Kenneth Street, Jr., Albert Ghiorso,
- Glenn T. Seaborg in 1950
- Appearance : Powerful neutron emitter
- Note : Radioactive
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- [Properties]
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- Californium has isotopes with atomic weights between 240 and 255.
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