Transcript Californium

98
Ca
251
Californium
By: Carrington Austin
Properties and Uses
Properties
 Californium’s melting
point is 900°C
 Californium is silverywhite
 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
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).
 It’s artificially produced (man-made).
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Was discovered at the University of California in
1950, giving it it’s name
It’s atomic mass
is251
It’s atomic number
Is 9 8
By 4 men
the University
Of California
Basic Facts
Discovery
It’s a metal
By bombarding
Ions
CALIFORNIUM
Rocket Fuel
Radioactive
Cancer therapy
Silvery-white
Uses
Properties
Well-logging
Melts at
900°°c
Sources
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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