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curium
- /ˈkjʊə.ɹi.əm/
- /ˈkjɔː.ɹi.əm/
- /ˈkjʊ.ɹi.əm/ US
Rhymes with -ʊəɹiəm, -ɔːɹiəm
Where it comes from
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.
noun
- A radioactive and highly fissile, silver-grey, metallic, transuranic chemical element (symbol Cm) with an atomic number of 96, which is artificially produced in a particle accelerator. Curium was the third transuranium element to be discovered. The first isotope of this element was the isotope, Cm²⁴², which was identified by G. T. Seaborg, R. A. James and A. Ghiorso at the Metallurgical Laboratory as the result of its production in the Berkeley cyclotron […] The availability of th
- An atom of this element.
Translations
Talk about this word "curium." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/curium. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. curium. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/curium "curium." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/curium.Cite this
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title = {curium},
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year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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