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Metallic curium is annealed in air or in an oxygen atmosphere: [1] Cm + O 2 → CmO 2. Curium(III) hydroxide and curium(III) oxalate are also usually used for this purpose: Cm(OH) 4 → CmO 2 + 2H 2 O Cm(C 2 O 4) 2 → CmO 2 + 2CO 2 + 2CO. Another way is the reaction of curium(III) oxide in an oxygen atmosphere at 650 °C: [2] 2Cm 2 O 3 + O 2 ...
Curium(III) oxide is a compound composed of curium and oxygen with the chemical formula Cm 2 O 3. It is a crystalline solid with a unit cell that contains two curium atoms and three oxygen atoms. The simplest synthesis equation involves the reaction of curium(III) metal with O 2−: 2 Cm 3+ + 3 O 2−---> Cm 2 O 3. [1]
Curium readily reacts with oxygen forming mostly Cm 2 O 3 and CmO 2 oxides, [1] but the divalent oxide CmO is also known. [2] Black CmO 2 can be obtained by burning curium oxalate (Cm 2 (C 2 O 4) 3), nitrate (Cm(NO 3) 3), or hydroxide in pure oxygen. [3] [4] Upon heating to 600–650 °C in vacuum (about 0.01 Pa), it transforms into the whitish ...
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The mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel, which is to be used in power reactors, should contain little or no curium because neutron activation of 248 Cm will create californium. Californium is a strong neutron emitter, and would pollute the back end of the fuel cycle and increase the dose to reactor personnel.
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Fission product yields by mass for thermal neutron fission of U-235 and Pu-239 (the two typical of current nuclear power reactors) and U-233 (used in the thorium cycle). This page discusses each of the main elements in the mixture of fission products produced by nuclear fission of the common nuclear fuels uranium and plutonium.
Curium(III) chloride can be obtained from the reaction of hydrogen chloride gas with curium dioxide, curium(III) oxide, or curium(III) oxychloride at a temperature of 400-600 °C: CmOCl + 2HCl → CmCl 3 + H 2 O. It can also be obtained from the dissolution of metallic curium in dilute hydrochloric acid: [2] 2Cm + 6HCl → 2CmCl 3 + 3H 2