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Contents. Isotopes of curium. Curium (96 Cm) is an artificial element with an atomic number of 96. Because it is an artificial element, a standard atomic weight cannot be given, and it has no stable isotopes. The first isotope synthesized was 242 Cm in 1944, which has 146 neutrons. There are 19 known radioisotopes ranging from 233 Cm to 251 Cm.
All known isotopes of curium are radioactive and have small critical mass for a nuclear chain reaction. The most stable isotope, 247 Cm, has a half-life of 15.6 million years; the longest-lived curium isotopes predominantly emit alpha particles.
The first of these quantities is used in atomic physics, the second in chemistry, but both refer to the same basic property of the element. To convert from "value of ionization energy" to the corresponding "value of molar ionization energy", the conversion is: 1 eV = 96.48534 kJ/mol. 1 kJ/mol = 0.0103642688 eV [12]
Radioactive isotope table "lists ALL radioactive nuclei with a half-life greater than 1000 years", incorporated in the list above. The NUBASE2020 evaluation of nuclear physics properties F.G. Kondev et al. 2021 Chinese Phys. C 45 030001. The PDF of this article lists the half-lives of all known radioactives nuclides.
Among 19 isotopes of curium, ranging in mass number from 233 to 251, [58] the most accessible are 242 Cm and 244 Cm; they are α-emitters, but with much shorter lifetime than the americium isotopes. These isotopes emit almost no γ-radiation, but undergo spontaneous fission with the associated emission of neutrons.
Twenty isotopes of californium are known (mass number ranging from 237 to 256 [10]); the most stable are 251 Cf with half-life 898 years, 249 Cf with half-life 351 years, 250 Cf at 13.08 years, and 252 Cf at 2.645 years. [10] All other isotopes have half-life shorter than a year, and most of these have half-lives less than 20 minutes. [10]
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List of elements by stability of isotopes. Isotope half-lives. The darker more stable isotope region departs from the line of protons (Z) = neutrons (N), as the element number Z becomes larger. This is a list of chemical elements by the stability of their isotopes. Of the first 82 elements in the periodic table, 80 have isotopes considered to ...