Curium!
1. Curium: [Cm 96]
a) The actinide curium was named after the Polish-French scientist Marie Curie and her husband, the French scientist Pierre Curie – the discoverers of the element radium.
b) Rovers (remote-controlled robot vehicles used for exploration) on Mars use curium to shine X-rays on rock samples, revealing what is in them.
c) ATOMIC MASS (247)
STATE Solid
DISCOVERY 1944 (team led by Glenn T Seaborg)
d) Curium is a silvery, radioactive metal that glows reddish purple in the dark.
e) This element was discovered by the US scientist Glenn T Seaborg at the University of California.
f) It was named after Marie Curie, the scientist who discovered the element polonium.
g) Several space probes, such as the Philae comet lander, use X-ray devices containing curium to study their environment.
h) Philae lander: This lander studied the surface composition of the comet 67P. #fblock #allinfobits #periodictable #innertransitionmetals #actinides #curium