curium

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a synthetic radioactive metallic chemical element with atomic number 96 and symbol Cm

   Researchers used curium as a target material when producing heavier elements.

Coined from Curie + -ium by Glenn T. Seaborg, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso after synthesizing the element in 1944. It honors physicists Marie and Pierre Curie for their pioneering work on radioactivity.

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