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Facts About Curium and Dubnium


Facts About Dubnium and Curium


Facts

Interesting Facts
  • Curium metal does not occur free in nature.
  • Curium metal is a synthetically produced metal.
  
  • IUPAC allotted a temporary name to Dubnium metal as “ Unnilpentium”.
  • In the production of Dubnium, thermal gradient chromatography is used.
  

Sources
Bombarding Plutonium with Helium Ions   
Produced by Bombarding Am243 with Ne22, Synthetically Produced   

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Glenn T. Seaborg, Ralph A. James, Albert Ghiorso   
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research   

Discovery
In 1944   
In 1968   

Abundance
  
  

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