Facts About Lawrencium and Curium
Interesting Facts
- It is synthetically produced metal.
- Radiation hazard can be produce by it.
- Curium metal does not occur free in nature.
- Curium metal is a synthetically produced metal.
Sources
Bombarding Californium-252 with Boron Nuclei, Found in Minerals, Mining
Bombarding Plutonium with Helium Ions
Who Discovered
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Glenn T. Seaborg, Ralph A. James, Albert Ghiorso
Discovery
In 1961–1971
In 1944