This is the second part of a three-part series written by Carolyn Krause. Many of the elements were synthesized using an Oak ...

They all have a link to the periodic table, which turned 150 in 2019 ... Curium is made by bombarding plutonium with helium ions and makes this list because its compounds glow in the dark.

The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...

The ions formed have a full outer electron shell, so are very stable. See the study guide on groups in the periodic table for more information.

"Traditional understanding of the periodic table suggests that berkelium would behave like the lanthanide terbium," said Minasian. "But the berkelium ion is much happier in the +4 oxidation state ...