All About - Californium (Extended)

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What is Californium? A report all about Californium for homework/assignment Californium is a radioactive metallic chemical element with symbol Cf and atomic number 98. The element was first made in 1950 at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, by bombarding curium with alpha particles (helium-4 ions). It is an actinide element, the sixth transuranium element to be synthesized, and has the second-highest atomic mass of all the elements that have been produced in amounts large enough to see with the unaided eye (after einsteinium). The element was named after the university and the state of California. It is the heaviest element to occur naturally on Earth; heavier elements can only be produced by synthesis. Intro/Outro music: Discovery Hit/Chucky the Construction Worker - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under CC-BY-3.0 Text derived from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californium Text to Speech powered by voice-rss.com Images are Public Domain or CC-BY-3.0: Californium.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californium Electron_shell_098_californium.png from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_shell_098_californium.png Electron_shell_098_Californium_-_no_label.svg from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_shell_098_Californium_-_no_label.svg 446px-Electron_shell_de_098_Californium.svg.png from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_shell_de_098_Californium.svg 600px-Cf_252_Produktion.png from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californium Californium.svg from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Californium.svg Californium_oxychloride.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californium_oxychloride