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Curium (96 Cm) is an artificial element with an atomic number of 96. Because it is an artificial element, a standard atomic weight cannot be given, and it has no stable isotopes. The first isotope synthesized was 242 Cm in 1944, which has 146 neutrons. There are 19 known radioisotopes ranging from 233 Cm to 251 Cm. There are also ten known ...
This is a list of radioactive nuclides (sometimes also called isotopes), ordered by half-life from shortest to longest, in seconds, minutes, hours, days and years. Current methods make it difficult to measure half-lives between approximately 10 −19 and 10 −10 seconds.
It contains a table of main isotopes and eventually the standard atomic weight. This template is reused in {{Infobox <element>}} as a child Infobox (|child=yes). As of Jan 2023, a 'Main isotope' is conforming MOS:MAINISOTOPE (under construction, see WP:ELEMENTS What is a "Main_isotope"?) Each isotope has its own row, with decay modes:
Theoretical element Applied: when element is theoretical (E119 and higher). No article "Isotopes of <element>": Header does not link; E119: Main isotopes of ununennium E121: Main isotopes of unbiunium Applied: E119, E120 do link, E121 and higher do not link. No isotopes known, Isobox does not exist: local input, per Infobox. For example:
Pages in category "Isotopes of curium" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Of the 94 natural elements, eighty have a stable isotope and one more has an almost-stable isotope (with a half-life of 2.01×10 19 years, over a billion times the age of the universe). [15] [b] Two more, thorium and uranium, have isotopes undergoing radioactive decay with a half-life comparable to the age of the Earth.
As in most transuranic elements, nuclear fission cross section is especially high for the odd-mass curium isotopes 243 Cm, 245 Cm and 247 Cm. These can be used in thermal-neutron reactors , whereas a mixture of curium isotopes is only suitable for fast breeder reactors since the even-mass isotopes are not fissile in a thermal reactor and ...
Prolonged irradiation of americium, curium, and plutonium with neutrons produces milligram amounts of 252 Cf and microgram amounts of 249 Cf. [55] As of 2006, curium isotopes 244 to 248 are irradiated by neutrons in special reactors to produce mainly californium-252 with lesser amounts of isotopes 249 to 255. [56]