#curium

[flmbt]

ykw dump because i dont know how to use tumble

[daily-mc-block]

Curium

[fluffins-doodles]

Welcome to the radiation zone you're most likely going to die if you pet them :))

[ketrinadrawsalot]

Curium is named after Marie Curie, pioneer of research on radioactivity. Its intense alpha radiation is used in the mass spectrometers of space probes, such as Mars rovers. The radiation will also ionize the surrounding air, making it glow purple!

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Americium, curium and californium—crystallizing the rarest elements

Actinides are a group of heavy, radioactive elements that include uranium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and californium. Understanding how these elements bond with other atoms (known as coordination chemistry), how they behave in water and how they can be separated from one another is crucial for safer nuclear waste management, new reactor technologies and advanced materials. However, because heavier elements, like curium and californium, do not occur naturally and must be synthesized in specialized nuclear reactors through long, multistep processes, only tiny amounts are available for research. As a result, they are exceptionally difficult to study. Since californium's discovery in 1950, only a handful of its coordination compounds have ever been structurally characterized. Californium is the heaviest element on the periodic table for which pure compounds can be synthesized and characterized in laboratories.

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[cyanogen-miasma]

eek!

for going down the whole "you should design elements named after people based on the thing the people are known for", Curium's mane is supposed to represent radiation. It is akin to the frill of a frilled lizard, and in this picture she has it splayed outwards in agitation. When she is more relaxed, it settles down on her shoulders.

[elementcattos]

curium

i had a lot of ideas about her dynamic with einsteinium but she is a pretentious piece of shit (affectionate) who is actually smart unlike einsteinium

yeah her metaphorical bones are fucked from managing to find radium in their little Radium Hole™, which also lead to her not having a tail (like radium jaw but for a tail)

yeah its fucked up but i mean. the only interesting thing about the element itself is that its in spaceships (she has rocket blasters in her paws that i didnt bother to draw) so i had to base her off of a mix of curie and the version that was on the who was show (netflix show for kids about historical figures, my only experience with her and thats just an actor)

anyhoo yeah. curium sure is complicated. illegal too.

wawawa :3

"in their little Radium Hole" dkfljhfdh nice headcanon i like it

[fuck-the-periodic-table]

Round 15 - Winners II

Which of these do you think is the most fuckable?

Carbon

Bismuth

Neon

Neodymium

Protactinium

Curium

Helium

Voting ended onApr 9, 2024