Isotopes of curium
Artificial nuclides with atomic number of 96 but with different mass numbers / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Curium (96Cm) 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 242Cm in 1944, which has 146 neutrons.
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There are 19 known radioisotopes ranging from 233Cm to 251Cm. There are also ten known nuclear isomers. The longest-lived isotope is 247Cm, with half-life 15.6 million years – orders of magnitude longer than that of any known isotope beyond curium, and long enough to study as a possible extinct radionuclide that would be produced by the r-process.[2][3] The longest-lived isomer is 246mCm with a half-life of 1.12 seconds.