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AI overview
Curium is a synthetic element created in 1944 by bombarding plutonium with alpha particles in a cyclotron, named after the pioneering radioactivity researchers Marie and Pierre Curie. As a radioactive element that does not occur naturally, curium is primarily valuable for scientific research and specialized applications that rely on its radioactive properties.
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Chemical data
- Formula
- Cm
- Molecular weight
- 247.07035 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- curium
- SMILES
- [Cm]
- InChIKey
- NIWWFAAXEMMFMS-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
via PubChem
Research
1,251 papers- Curious curium.Nature chemistry · 2016Abergel RJ, Ansoborlo E