Californium

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Californium
98 Ca 251

• By Carrington Austin

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Properties and Uses

• Properties
• Californiums melting point is 900C
• Californium is silvery- white
• Californium is a metal
• Californium is radioactive
• Other properties are yet to be discovered due to
  Californium being too small to observe others.

• Uses
• Rocket fuel
• Cancer therapy
• Neutron moisture gauges
• Well-logging
• Neutron source

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Facts About Californium

• Californium may be the cause of stellar
  explosions, but has yet to be proven.
• Discovered in 1950 by Thomson, Street, Jr.,
  Ghiorso, and Seaborg, at the University of
  California giving Californium its name.
• Releases 170 million neutrons a minute.
• Discovered by bombarding ions (an atom or a group
  of atoms).
• Its artificially produced (man-made).
• Was discovered at the University of
  California in 1950, giving it its name

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Its atomic mass is251
Its atomic number Is 9 8
By 4 men
the University Of California
Basic Facts
Discovery
Its a metal
By bombarding Ions
CALIFORNIUM
Rocket Fuel
Radioactive
Cancer therapy
Silvery-white
Uses
Properties
Well-logging
Melts at 900c
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Sources

• http//www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/98_61.html
• http//periodic.lanl.gov/elements/98.html
• http//www.speclab.com/elements/californium.html
• http//www.chemicalelements.com/index.html
• http//chemistry.about.com/library/blper5.html