Facts About Dubnium and Curium
Interesting Facts
- IUPAC allotted a temporary name to Dubnium metal as “ Unnilpentium”.
- In the production of Dubnium, thermal gradient chromatography is used.
- Curium metal does not occur free in nature.
- Curium metal is a synthetically produced metal.
Sources
Produced by Bombarding Am243 with Ne22, Synthetically Produced
Bombarding Plutonium with Helium Ions
Who Discovered
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Glenn T. Seaborg, Ralph A. James, Albert Ghiorso
Discovery
In 1968
In 1944