californium

See also: Californium

English

Chemical element
Cf
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californium

Wikipedia

A cask for transporting **californium**-252. Note the very thick radiation shielding for only a small amount of **californium**.

Etymology

From California +‎ -ium. The element was first synthesized at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (then the University of California Radiation Laboratory), thus named after the university and the U.S. state of California.

Pronunciation

enPR: kălĭfôr'nēəm
- (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkælɪˈfɔɹniəm/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkælɪˈfɔːniəm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

californium (uncountable)

A strongly radioactive and highly fissile transuranic chemical element (symbol Cf) with an atomic number of 98.

Derived terms

Related terms

Other brutally expensive material:

endohedral fullerene

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: kalifornium (af)
Albanian: kalefornium
Arabic: كَالِيفُورْنِيُوم m (kaliforniyum)
Armenian: կալիֆոռնիում (kalifoṙnium)
Asturian: californiu (ast) m
Basque: kalifornioa
Belarusian: каліфо́рній m (kalifórnij)
Breton: kaliforniom (br)
Bulgarian: калифо́рний m (kalifórnij)
Catalan: californi (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鉲／𰽩 (zh) (kāi)
Cornish: calyfornyum
Czech: kalifornium (cs)
Danish: californium (da)
Dutch: californium (nl) n
Esperanto: kaliforniumo (eo)
Estonian: kalifornium (et)
Faroese: kalifornium n
Finnish: kalifornium (fi)
French: californium (fr) m
Friulian: californi
Galician: californio (gl)
Georgian: კალიფორნიუმი (ḳaliporniumi)
German: Californium (de) n
Greek: καλιφόρνιο (el) n (kalifórnio)
Hebrew: קליפורניום (he) (kalifórniyum)
Hungarian: kalifornium (hu)
Icelandic: kalifornín (is)
Irish: calafoirniam
Italian: californio (it) m
Japanese: カリホルニウム (ja) (karihoruniumu)
Kashubian: kalifòrn
Kazakh: калифорний (kk) (kalifornii)
Korean: 칼리포르늄 (ko) (kalliporeunyum), 캘리포늄 (kaelliponyum)
Latin: californium (la)
Latvian: kalifornijs
Lithuanian: kalifornis (lt)
Luxembourgish: Kalifornium
Macedonian: калифорниум m (kalifornium)
Malay: kalifornium
Maltese: kalifornjum
Manx: californium
Mongolian: калифорни (kaliforni)
Norwegian: californium
Persian: کالیفرنیم (kâliforniom)
Polish: kaliforn (pl) m
Portuguese: califórnio (pt) m
Romanian: californiu (ro) n
Russian: калифо́рний (ru) m (kalifórnij)
Scottish Gaelic: calafoirniam
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: калифорниј m, калифорнијум m

Roman: kalifornij (sh), kalifornijum
Slovak: kalifornium
Slovene: kalifornij (sl)
Spanish: californio (es) m
Swedish: californium (sv) n
Tajik: [Term?] (kaliforni')
Tamil: கலிபோர்ணியம் (kalipōrṇiyam)
Thai: แคลิฟอร์เนียม (kɛɛ-lí-fɔɔ-nîiam)
Turkish: kaliforniyum (tr)
Ukrainian: каліфо́рній (uk) m (kalifórnij)
Uzbek: калифорний (kaliforniy), kaliforniy
Vietnamese: califoni
Volapük: kalifornin (vo)
Welsh: califforniwm
West Frisian: californium