Hi, today I will introduce element, Curium.

Basic info: Curium has 96 electron and 96 protons

which means atomic number of Curium is also 96.
Neutrons in most abundant isotope: 151. Curium
has two valence electrons. Atomic mass is 247. It
belongs to transuranic elements.

properties: Curium is a hard, brittle, silvery radioactive

metal that tarnishes slowly and it can only be produced
in nuclear reactors. Because of that, Curium is very
very radioactive so it’s really toxic for human but, on
the other hand, Since curium is radioactive, its isotopes
can generate heat energy.
we cannot find Curium in nature. Curium is very
reactive since it has two valence electons so it want to
giveaway it’s electrons.

Curium Uses: Since curium is radioactive, its isotopes

can generate heat energy which can be converted into
electrical energy by a device called a thermocouple.
This allows curium to be used as a power source in
various applications. The thing that I think is the most
interesting is that Curium has been used to provide
power to electrical equipment used on space missions.

history: Curium was first made by the team of Glenn

Seaborg, Ralph James, and Albert Ghiorso in 1944,
using the cyclotron at Berkeley, California. They
bombarded a piece of the newly discovered element
plutonium (isotope 239) with alpha-particles. This was
then sent to the Metallurgical Laboratory at the
University of Chicago where a tiny sample of curium
was eventually separated and identified.

compound: Curium(III) oxide is a compound composed of curium and oxygen with the chemical
formula Cm2O3. It is a crystalline solid with a unit cell that contains two curium atoms and three
oxygen atoms. This thing exist at extremely high temperatures, making it difficult for experimental
studies to be done on the formation of their structures. curium trioxide