all you need to know the californium

the usefulness of californium, its history and its discovery

in these two videos show that is, its constitution and differences with other components

This film, produced at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, has four scientists who were directors at the discovery and identification of several transuranic elements. Glenn Seaborg reviews the historical problem of the placement of the transuranium elements of the periodic table. Burris Cunningham performed experiments showing that neptunium, plutonium and americium have chemical properties similar to those of uranium, but under the same experimental conditions curio behaves like its counterpart of the rare earths, gadolinium. Stanley Thompson shows how to use the technique of ion exchange separation of identification, the use of real solutions of curium, berkelium, californium and einsteinium. Albert Ghiorso describes the methods used in the synthesis of the elements 102 and 103, and proposes a similar type of reaction that may lead to the discovery of element 104.