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californium

chemical element
Also known as: Cf
Written by
Lester Morss
Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
Lester Morss
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californium (Cf), synthetic chemical element of the actinoid series of the periodic table, atomic number 98. Not occurring in nature, californium (as the isotope californium-245) was discovered (1950) by American chemists Stanley G. Thompson, Kenneth Street, Jr., Albert Ghiorso, and Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley, as a product resulting from the helium-ion bombardment of curium-242 (atomic number 96) in the 152-cm (60-inch) cyclotron, followed by chemical separation from other elements by...

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