curium

What does curium mean?

curium means "a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei".

How many syllables are in curium?

curium has 3 syllables and divides as cu-ri-um under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for curium?

Close synonyms include Cm, atomic number 96. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is curium a common word?

curium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for curium come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.