All About - Curium

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What is Curium? A documentary report all about Curium for homework/assignment. Curium is a transuranic radioactive chemical element with symbol Cm and atomic number 96. This element of the actinide series was named after Marie and Pierre Curie – both were known for their research on radioactivity. Curium was first intentionally produced and identified in July 1944 by the group of Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley. The discovery was kept secret and only released to the public in November 1945. Most curium is produced by bombarding uranium or plutonium with neutrons in nuclear reactors – one tonne of spent nuclear fuel contains about 20 grams of curium. 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/Curium Text to Speech powered by voice-rss.com Images are Public Domain or CC-BY-3.0: Curium.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curium Curium_self-glow_radiation.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curium Electron_shell_096_curium.png from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_shell_096_curium.png 439px-Electron_shell_096_curium.png from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_shell_096_curium.png Closest_packing_ABAC.png from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curium 153px-Electron_shell_096_Curium_-_no_label.svg.png from http://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantilya:Infobox_curium