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98 Cf 251 u

Element 98 · Solid at room temperature

Californium

Actinides

Looks like: silvery.

Cf

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). It is an actinide element, the sixth transuranium element to be synthesized, and has the second-highest atomic mass of all the elements that have been produced in amounts large enough to see with the unaided eye (after einsteinium).

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Atomic mass

251u

Density

15.1g/cm³

Melts

1173 K

Boils

1743 K

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Californium's family

Elements in the same series — near-identical chemistry, which is why they share a row.

Source

Discovered by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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