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Discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particles
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californium
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n. a transuranic chemical element (''symbol'' Cf) with an atomic number of 98.
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Californium is a radioactive metallic chemical element with symbol Cf and atomic number 98. The element was first made in 1950 at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley , by bombarding curium with alpha particles ( helium-4 ions ). ...
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n. a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particles [syn: Cf , atomic number 98 ]
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Take, for example, a kilogram of Californium 254, assuming an orbital manufacturing plant to produce it.
No matter that a kilo of Californium 254 is, at present, a stupefyingly immense quantity.
Deirdre Mulligan belongs to a fairly rare species: Californium indigenous, the native Californian.
Wearing her arms inspectorate hat, she was all too familiar with the effects of americium bombs: nuclear weapons made with an isotope denser and more fissile than plutonium, more stable than californium.