Found 2 items, similar to curium.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: curium curium n : a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei [syn: Cm, atomic number 96 ]
English → English (gcide) Definition: curium curium \curium\ n. [after Pierre and Marie Curie.] a radioactive transuranic element of atomic number 96, having an atomic weight of 247 for its most stable isotope (half-life 1.6 x 10^7 years). The chemical symbol is Cm. Note: It was first prepared in 1944 by helium-ion bombardment of plutonium in a cyclotron by Glenn Seaborg and colleagues in California. It has never been detected in nature, though minute quantities may exist in uranium deposits as a consequence of the neutron flux there. Syn: Cm, atomic number 96. [WordNet 1.5]