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Where has californium been made?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Californium was obtained by Stanley G. Thompson, Kenneth Street, Albert Ghiorso and Glenn Seaborg in 1950 at Berkeley Laboratories. The nuclear reaction is: Curium 242 + Helium 4-------Californium 245 + neutron

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