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What is Curium? Origin / Meaning of the name Curium
Named the new element after Marie Curie and her husband Pierre
Curie who discovered radium and polonium.
What is Curium? Periodic Table Group and Classification of the Curium Element
Elements can be classified based on their physical states (States
of Matter) e.g. gas, solid or liquid. This element is a solid. Curium
classified as
an element in the Actinide series as one of the "Rare Earth
Elements" which can located in Group 3 elements of the Periodic
Table and in the 6th and 7th periods. The Rare Earth Elements are
of the Lanthanide and Actinide series. Most of the elements in the
Actinide series are synthetic or man-made. Nearly 75% of
all the elements in the Periodic Table are classified as metals
which are detailed in the
List of Metals.
Facts about the Discovery and History of the Curium
Element
First synthesized at the University of California, Berkeley,
USA by Glenn T. Seaborg, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso in
1944. Discovery credited to Glenn Seaborg.
Glenn T. Seaborg
The American scientist Glenn T. Seaborg (1912 - 1999) won the
1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry
of the transuranium elements". Glenn Seaborg contributed to the
discovery and isolation of ten elements: plutonium, americium,
curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium,
mendelevium, nobelium and element 106, which was named
seaborgium in his honor whilst he was still living. Glenn
Seaborg also developed the actinide concept, which led to the
current arrangement of the actinoid series in the periodic table
of the elements.
Glenn Seaborg (1912 - 1999)
What is Curium? Occurrence of the Curium Element
Man-made
Abundances of the element in different environments
% in Universe N/A
% in Sun None
% in Meteorites None
% in Earth's Crust None
% in Oceans None
% in Humans None
Associated Uses of Curium
Pacemakers
Remote navigational buoys
Space missions |
