Californium

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Californium,  98Cf
A very small disc of silvery metal, magnified to show its metallic texture
General properties
Name, symbol californium, Cf
Pronunciation /ˌkælᵻˈfɔːrniəm/
KAL-i-FOR-nee-əm
Appearance silvery
Californium in the periodic table
Dy
↑
Cf
↓
(Upb)
berkelium ← californium → einsteinium
Atomic number (Z) 98
Group, block group n/a, f-block
Period period 7
Element category   actinide
Standard atomic weight (Ar) (251)[1]
Electron configuration [Rn] 5f10 7s2[2]
per shell
 2, 8, 18, 32, 28, 8, 2
Physical properties
Phase solid
Melting point 1173 K ​(900 °C, ​1652 °F)[1]
Boiling point 1743 K ​(1470 °C, ​2678 °F) (estimation)[3]
Density near r.t. 15.1 g/cm3[1]
Atomic properties
Oxidation states 2, 3, 4[4]
Electronegativity Pauling scale: 1.3[5]
Ionization energies 1st: 608 kJ/mol[6]
Miscellanea
Crystal structure

​double hexagonal close-packed (dhcp)

Double hexagonal close packed crystal structure for californium
Mohs hardness 3–4[7]
CAS Number 7440-71-3[1]
History
Naming after California, where it was discovered
Discovery Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1950)
Most stable isotopes of californium[8][9]
iso NA half-life DM DE (MeV) DP
248Cf syn 333.5 d α (100%) 6.369 244Cm
SF (2.9×10−3%) 0.0029 –
249Cf syn 351 y α (100%) 6.295 245Cm
SF (5.0×10−7%) 4.4×10−7 –
250Cf syn 13.08 y α (99.92%) 6.129 246Cm
SF (0.08%) 0.077 –
251Cf syn 898 y α 6.172 247Cm
252Cf syn 2.645 y α (96.91%) 6.217 248Cm
SF (3.09%) – –
253Cf syn 17.81 d β− (99.69%) 0.29 253Es
α (0.31%) 6.126 249Cm
254Cf syn 60.5 d SF (99.69%) – –
α (0.31%) 5.930 250Cm

Californium is a radioactive metallic chemical element with symbol Cf and atomic number 98. The element was first made in 1950 at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, by bombarding curium with alpha particles (helium-4 ions). It is an actinide element, the sixth transuranium element to be synthesized, and has the second-highest atomic mass of all the elements that have been produced in amounts large enough to see with the unaided eye (after einsteinium). The element was named after the university and the state of California.

Two crystalline forms exist for californium under normal pressure: one above and one below 900 °C (1,650 °F). A third form exists at high pressure. Californium slowly tarnishes in air at room temperature. Compounds of californium are dominated by a chemical form of the element, designated californium(III), that can participate in three chemical bonds. The most stable of californium's twenty known isotopes is californium-251, which has a half-life of 898 years. This short half-life means the element is not found in significant quantities in the Earth's crust.[lower-alpha 1] Californium-252, with a half-life of about 2.64 years, is the most common isotope used and is produced at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States and the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Russia.

Californium is one of the few transuranium elements that have practical applications. Most of these applications exploit the property of certain isotopes of californium to emit neutrons. For example, californium can be used to help start up nuclear reactors, and it is employed as a source of neutrons when studying materials with neutron diffraction and neutron spectroscopy. Californium can also be used in nuclear synthesis of higher mass elements; oganesson (element 118) was synthesized by bombarding californium-249 atoms with calcium-48 ions. Users of californium must take into account radiological concerns and the element's ability to disrupt the formation of red blood cells by bioaccumulating in skeletal tissue.

Characteristics

Physical properties

Californium is a silvery white actinide metal[10] with a melting point of 900 ± 30 °C (1,650 ± 50 °F) and an estimated boiling point of 1,745 K (1,470 °C; 2,680 °F).[11] The pure metal is malleable and is easily cut with a razor blade. Californium metal starts to vaporize above 300 °C (570 °F) when exposed to a vacuum.[12] Below 51 K (−220 °C) californium metal is either ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic (it acts like a magnet), between 48 and 66 K it is antiferromagnetic (an intermediate state), and above 160 K (−113 °C; −172 °F) it is paramagnetic (external magnetic fields can make it magnetic).[13] It forms alloys with lanthanide metals but little is known about them.[12]

The element has two crystalline forms under 1 standard atmosphere of pressure: A double-hexagonal close-packed form dubbed alpha (α) and a face-centered cubic form designated beta (β).[lower-alpha 2] The α form exists below 600–800 °C with a density of 15.10 g/cm3 and the β form exists above 600–800 °C with a density of 8.74 g/cm3.[15] At 48 GPa of pressure the β form changes into an orthorhombic crystal system due to delocalization of the atom's 5f electrons, which frees them to bond.[16][lower-alpha 3]

The bulk modulus of a material is a measure of its resistance to uniform pressure. Californium's bulk modulus is 50 ± 5 GPa, which is similar to trivalent lanthanide metals but smaller than more familiar metals, such as aluminium (70 GPa).[16]

Chemical properties and compounds

Further information: Compounds of californium
Representative californium compounds[10][lower-alpha 4]
state compound formula color
+2 californium(II) bromide CfBr2 yellow
+2 californium(II) iodide CfI2 dark violet
+3 californium(III) oxide Cf2O3 yellow-green
+3 californium(III) fluoride CfF3 bright green
+3 californium(III) chloride CfCl3 emerald green
+3 californium(III) iodide CfI3 lemon yellow
+3 californium(III) borate Cf[B6O8(OH)5] pale green
+4 californium(IV) oxide CfO2 black brown
+4 californium(IV) fluoride CfF4 green

Californium exhibits oxidation states of 4, 3, or 2. It typically forms eight or nine bonds to surrounding atoms or ions. Its chemical properties are predicted to be similar to other primarily 3+ valence actinide elements[18] and the element dysprosium, which is the lanthanide above californium in the periodic table.[19] The element slowly tarnishes in air at room temperature, with the rate increasing when moisture is added.[15] Californium reacts when heated with hydrogen, nitrogen, or a chalcogen (oxygen family element); reactions with dry hydrogen and aqueous mineral acids are rapid.[15]

Californium is only water-soluble as the californium(III) cation. Attempts to reduce or oxidize the +3 ion in solution have failed.[19] The element forms a water-soluble chloride, nitrate, perchlorate, and sulfate and is precipitated as a fluoride, oxalate, or hydroxide.[18] Californium is the heaviest actinide to exhibit covalent properties, as is observed in the californium borate.[20]

Isotopes

Twenty radioisotopes of californium have been characterized, the most stable being californium-251 with a half-life of 898 years, californium-249 with a half-life of 351 years, californium-250 with a half-life of 13.08 years, and californium-252 with a half-life of 2.645 years.[9] All the remaining isotopes have half-lives shorter than a year, and the majority of these have half-lives shorter than 20 minutes.[9] The isotopes of californium range in mass number from 237 to 256.[9]

Californium-249 is formed from the beta decay of berkelium-249, and most other californium isotopes are made by subjecting berkelium to intense neutron radiation in a nuclear reactor.[19] Although californium-251 has the longest half-life, its production yield is only 10% due to its tendency to collect neutrons (high neutron capture) and its tendency to interact with other particles (high neutron cross-section).[21]

Californium-252 is a very strong neutron emitter, which makes it extremely radioactive and harmful.[22][23][24] Californium-252 undergoes alpha decay 96.9% of the time to form curium-248 while the remaining 3.1% of decays are spontaneous fission.[9] One microgram (µg) of californium-252 emits 2.3 million neutrons per second, an average of 3.7 neutrons per spontaneous fission.[25] Most of the other isotopes of californium decay to isotopes of curium (atomic number 96) via alpha decay.[9]

History

Large pieces of equipment with a man standing nearby.
The 60-inch-diameter (1.52 m) cyclotron used to first synthesize californium

Californium was first synthesized at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, by the physics researchers Stanley G. Thompson, Kenneth Street, Jr., Albert Ghiorso, and Glenn T. Seaborg on or about February 9, 1950.[26] It was the sixth transuranium element to be discovered; the team announced its discovery on March 17, 1950.[27][28][29]

To produce californium, a microgram-sized target of curium-242 (242
96Cm
) was bombarded with 35 MeV-alpha particles (4
2He
) in the 60-inch-diameter (1.52 m) cyclotron at Berkeley, which produced californium-245 (245
98Cf
) plus one free neutron (
n
).[26]

242
96Cm
 + 4
2He
 → 245
98Cf
 + 1
0
n

Only about 5,000 atoms of californium were produced in this experiment,[30] and these atoms had a half-life of 44 minutes.[26]

The discoverers named the new element after the university and the state. This was a break from the convention used for elements 95 to 97, which drew inspiration from how the elements directly above them in the periodic table were named.[31][lower-alpha 5] However, the element directly above element 98 in the periodic table, dysprosium, has a name that simply means "hard to get at" so the researchers decided to set aside the informal naming convention.[33] They added that "the best we can do is to point out [that] ... searchers a century ago found it difficult to get to California."[32]

Weighable quantities of californium were first produced by the irradiation of plutonium targets at the Materials Testing Reactor at the National Reactor Testing Station in eastern Idaho; and these findings were reported in 1954.[34] The high spontaneous fission rate of californium-252 was observed in these samples. The first experiment with californium in concentrated form occurred in 1958.[26] The isotopes californium-249 to californium-252 were isolated that same year from a sample of plutonium-239 that had been irradiated with neutrons in a nuclear reactor for five years.[10] Two years later, in 1960, Burris Cunningham and James Wallman of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory of the University of California created the first californium compounds—californium trichloride, californium oxychloride, and californium oxide—by treating californium with steam and hydrochloric acid.[35]

The High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, started producing small batches of californium in the 1960s.[36] By 1995, the HFIR nominally produced 500 milligrams (0.018 oz) of californium annually.[37] Plutonium supplied by the United Kingdom to the United States under the 1958 US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement was used for californium production.[38]

The Atomic Energy Commission sold californium-252 to industrial and academic customers in the early 1970s for $10 per microgram[25] and an average of 150 mg (0.0053 oz) of californium-252 were shipped each year from 1970 to 1990.[39][lower-alpha 6] Californium metal was first prepared in 1974 by Haire and Baybarz who reduced californium(III) oxide with lanthanum metal to obtain microgram amounts of sub-micrometer thick films.[40][41][lower-alpha 7]

Occurrence

Traces of californium can be found near facilities that use the element in mineral prospecting and in medical treatments.[43] The element is fairly insoluble in water, but it adheres well to ordinary soil; and concentrations of it in the soil can be 500 times higher than in the water surrounding the soil particles.[44]

Fallout from atmospheric nuclear testing prior to 1980 contributed a small amount of californium to the environment.[44] Californium isotopes with mass numbers 249, 252, 253, and 254 have been observed in the radioactive dust collected from the air after a nuclear explosion.[45] Californium is not a major radionuclide at United States Department of Energy legacy sites since it was not produced in large quantities.[44]

Californium was once believed to be produced in supernovas, as their decay matches the 60-day half-life of 254Cf.[46] However, subsequent studies failed to demonstrate any californium spectra,[47] and supernova light curves are now thought to follow the decay of nickel-56.[48]

The transuranic elements from americium to fermium, including californium, occurred naturally in the natural nuclear fission reactor at Oklo, but no longer do so.[49]

Production

Californium is produced in nuclear reactors and particle accelerators.[50] Californium-250 is made by bombarding berkelium-249 (249
97Bk
) with neutrons, forming berkelium-250 (250
97Bk
) via neutron capture (n,γ) which, in turn, quickly beta decays (β−) to californium-250 (250
98Cf
) in the following reaction:[51]

249
97Bk
(n,γ)250
97Bk
 → 250
98Cf
 + β−

Bombardment of californium-250 with neutrons produces californium-251 and californium-252.[51]

Prolonged irradiation of americium, curium, and plutonium with neutrons produces milligram amounts of californium-252 and microgram amounts of californium-249.[52] As of 2006, curium isotopes 244 to 248 are irradiated by neutrons in special reactors to produce primarily californium-252 with lesser amounts of isotopes 249 to 255.[53]

Microgram quantities of californium-252 are available for commercial use through the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.[50] Only two sites produce californium-252 – the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States, and the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad, Russia. As of 2003, the two sites produce 0.25 grams and 0.025 grams of californium-252 per year, respectively.[54]

Three californium isotopes with significant half-lives are produced, requiring a total of 15 neutron captures by uranium-238 without nuclear fission or alpha decay occurring during the process.[54] Californium-253 is at the end of a production chain that starts with uranium-238, includes several isotopes of plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, and the californium isotopes 249 to 253 (see diagram).

A complex flow diagram showing various isotopes.
Scheme of the production of californium-252 from uranium-238 by neutron irradiation

Applications

Large conical structure on a pulley with a man on top and two near the base.
Fifty-ton shipping cask built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory which can transport up to 1 gram of 252Cf.[55] Large and heavily shielded transport containers are needed to prevent the release of highly radioactive material in case of normal and hypothetical accidents.[56]

Californium-252 has a number of specialized applications as a strong neutron emitter, and each microgram of fresh californium produces 139 million neutrons per minute.[25] This property makes californium useful as a neutron startup source for some nuclear reactors[15] and as a portable (non-reactor based) neutron source for neutron activation analysis to detect trace amounts of elements in samples.[57][lower-alpha 8] Neutrons from californium are employed as a treatment of certain cervical and brain cancers where other radiation therapy is ineffective.[15] It has been used in educational applications since 1969 when the Georgia Institute of Technology received a loan of 119 µg of californium-252 from the Savannah River Plant.[59] It is also used with online elemental coal analyzers and bulk material analyzers in the coal and cement industries.

Neutron penetration into materials makes californium useful in detection instruments such as fuel rod scanners;[15] neutron radiography of aircraft and weapons components to detect corrosion, bad welds, cracks and trapped moisture;[60] and in portable metal detectors.[61] Neutron moisture gauges use californium-252 to find water and petroleum layers in oil wells, as a portable neutron source for gold and silver prospecting for on-the-spot analysis,[19] and to detect ground water movement.[62] The major uses of californium-252 in 1982 were, in order of use, reactor start-up (48.3%), fuel rod scanning (25.3%), and activation analysis (19.4%).[63] By 1994 most californium-252 was used in neutron radiography (77.4%), with fuel rod scanning (12.1%) and reactor start-up (6.9%) as important but distant secondary uses.[63]

Californium-251 has a very small calculated critical mass of about 5 kg (11 lb),[64] high lethality, and a relatively short period of toxic environmental irradiation. The low critical mass of californium led to some exaggerated claims about possible uses for the element.[lower-alpha 9]

In October 2006, researchers announced that three atoms of oganesson (element 118) had been identified at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, as the product of bombardment of californium-249 with calcium-48, making it the heaviest element ever synthesized. The target for this experiment contained about 10 mg of californium-249 deposited on a titanium foil of 32 cm2 area.[66][67][68] Californium has also been used to produce other transuranium elements; for example, element 103 (later named lawrencium) was first synthesized in 1961 by bombarding californium with boron nuclei.[69]

Precautions

Californium that bioaccumulates in skeletal tissue releases radiation that disrupts the body's ability to form red blood cells.[70] The element plays no natural biological role in any organism due to its intense radioactivity and low concentration in the environment.[43]

Californium can enter the body from ingesting contaminated food or drinks or by breathing air with suspended particles of the element. Once in the body, only 0.05% of the californium will reach the bloodstream. About 65% of that californium will be deposited in the skeleton, 25% in the liver, and the rest in other organs, or excreted, mainly in urine. Half of the californium deposited in the skeleton and liver are gone in 50 and 20 years, respectively. Californium in the skeleton adheres to bone surfaces before slowly migrating throughout the bone.[44]

The element is most dangerous if taken into the body. In addition, californium-249 and californium-251 can cause tissue damage externally, through gamma ray emission. Ionizing radiation emitted by californium on bone and in the liver can cause cancer.[44]

Notes

  1. ↑ The Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, and the extent of natural neutron emission within it that could produce californium from more stable elements is extremely limited.
  2. ↑ A double hexagonal close-packed (dhcp) unit cell consists of two hexagonal close-packed structures that share a common hexagonal plane, giving dhcp an ABACABAC sequence.[14]
  3. ↑ The three lower-mass transplutonium elements—americium, curium, and berkelium—require much less pressure to delocalize their 5f electrons.[16]
  4. ↑ Other +3 oxidation states include the sulfide and metallocene.[17] Compounds in the +4 oxidation state are strong oxidizing agents and those in the +2 state are strong reducing agents.[10]
  5. ↑ Europium, in the sixth period directly above element 95, was named for the continent it was discovered on, so element 95 was named americium. Element 96 was named curium for Marie Curie and Pierre Curie as an analog to the naming of gadolinium, which was named for the scientist and engineer Johan Gadolin. Terbium was named for the village it was discovered in, so element 97 was named berkelium.[32]
  6. ↑ The Nuclear Regulatory Commission replaced the Atomic Energy Commission when the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 was implemented. The price of californium-252 was increased by the NRC several times and was $60 per microgram by 1999; this price does not include the cost of encapsulation and transportation.[25]
  7. ↑ In 1975, another paper stated that the californium metal prepared the year before was the hexagonal compound Cf2O2S and face-centered cubic compound CfS.[42] The 1974 work was confirmed in 1976 and work on californium metal continued.[40]
  8. ↑ By 1990, californium-252 had replaced plutonium-beryllium neutron sources due to its smaller size and lower heat and gas generation.[58]
  9. ↑ An article entitled "Facts and Fallacies of World War III" in the July 1961, edition of Popular Science magazine read "A californium atomic bomb need be no bigger than a pistol bullet. You could build a hand-held six-shooter to fire bullets that would explode on contact with the force of 10 tons of TNT."[65]

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Periodic table (Large cells)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
1 H He
2 Li Be B C N O F Ne
3 Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar
4 K Ca Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br Kr
5 Rb Sr Y Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn Sb Te I Xe
6 Cs Ba La Ce Pr Nd Pm Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb Lu Hf Ta W Re Os Ir Pt Au Hg Tl Pb Bi Po At Rn
7 Fr Ra Ac Th Pa U Np Pu Am Cm Bk Cf Es Fm Md No Lr Rf Db Sg Bh Hs Mt Ds Rg Cn Nh Fl Mc Lv Ts Og
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