Atomic number 96 occurs as synthetic element in the periodic table that has the symbol Cm & atomic number 96. The radioactive metallic transuranic element of the actinide series, curium is by bombarding plutonium with alpha particles (helium ions) and was known as for Marie Curie and her husband Pierre.

Notable characteristics
A isotope curium-248 has been synthesized only inside mg quantities, however curium-242 & curium-244 come processed within multigram numbers, which allows for the determination of a bit of of the element's properties. Curium-244 may be manufactured inside quantity by subjecting plutonium to neutron bombardment. Super little numbers of atomic number 96 could survive around uranium ore as a daughter product of natural decompose. There are couple commercial applications for cm however it could of these day exist as utile within radioisotope thermoelectrical generators. Atomic number 96 bio-accumulates in bone tissue where its radiation destroys bone marrow and thus ends red blood cell creation.

The rare earth homolog, curium is somewhat chemically similar to gadolinium but with the further complex crystal structure. Chemically reactive, its metal is silvery-white in color & a element is further electropositive than aluminium (most trivalent atomic number 96 compounds are slightly yellow). Curium-24Ii is utile as a personal energy source due to the fact that it might generate around 2 watts of thermal energy per gram. These are utilized in pacemakers, remote navigational buoys, and inside space missions.

Many atomic number 96 compounds use at times been produced. It include: cm dioxide (CmO₂), curium trioxide (Cm_TwoO_Triplet), atomic number 96 bromide (CmBr₃), curium chloride (CmCl₃), curium tetrafluoride (CmF₄) and atomic number 96 iodide (CmI₃).

History
Atomic number 96 was first synthesized at the University of California, Berkeley and by Glenn T. Seaborg, Ralph A. James, & Albert Ghiorso in 1944. A team known as a recently element fallowing Marie Curie and her husband Pierre who are famed for discovering radium and for their work within radioactivity. It was chemically identified at a Metallurgical Laboratory (nowadays Argonne National Laboratory) at the University of Chicago. It was actually a third transuranium element to exist as found potentially though these are a 2nd in the series. Curium-242 (half-life 163 days) & a single free neutron were made by bombarding alpha particles onto a plutonium-239 target in the 60-inch cyclotron at Berkeley. Louis Werner & Isadore Perlman created the seeable sample of curium-242 hydroxide at the University of California in 1947 by bombarding americium-241 with neutrons. Atomic number 96 was manufactured inside its primary form within 1951 for the first instance.

Isotopes
Xix radioisotopes of curium stand been characterized, by owning the virtually all stalls existence Cm-247 by having a half-life of 1.56 × 10⁷ years, Cm-248 with the half-life of Triad.40 × 10^Five years, Cm-250 sustaining the half-life of 9000 years, & Cm-245 sustaining the half-life of 8500 years. 100% of the unexpended radioactive isotopes develop half-lifes that come less than Thirty years, & a majority one have half lifes that come less than 33 years. This element besides has Quartet meta states, with a virtually all stalls existence Cm-244m (t_½ 34 ms). A isotopes of atomic number 96 home in atomic weight from 233.051 amu (Cm-233) to 252.085 amu (Cm-252).