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Facts About Thulium and Curium


Facts About Curium and Thulium


Facts

Interesting Facts
  • Thulium metal can resist corrosion due to dry air .
  • Only Tm-169 isotope of Thulium metal occur naturally.
  
  • Curium metal does not occur free in nature.
  • Curium metal is a synthetically produced metal.
  

Sources
Found in Minerals, Mining, Ores of Minerals   
Bombarding Plutonium with Helium Ions   

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Per Teodor Cleve   
Glenn T. Seaborg, Ralph A. James, Albert Ghiorso   

Discovery
In 1879   
In 1944   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
1 * 10-8 %   
30
Not Available   

Abundance In Sun
~0.00000002 %   
28
~-9999 %   

Abundance In Meteorites
0.00 %   
99+
Not Available   

Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.00 %   
99+
Not Available   

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
99+
Not Available   

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