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English

Etymology

From Curie (“a surname”) +? -ite, after Pierre Curie and/or his wife Marie, early researchers of radioactivity — the ore being radioactive by virtue of its uranium content.

Noun

curite (usually uncountable, plural curites)

1. (mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and uranium.
   • 1962, Thomas Arthur Rickard (editor), The Mining Magazine, Volumes 106-107, page 9,

     The present note relates to the behaviour of uranium minerals such as uraninite, curite, and uranophane in high-tension separators.

   • 1982, R. W. Boyle, Geochemical Prospecting for Thorium and Uranium Deposits, Elsevier, Developments in Economic Geology: 16, page 68,

     Yellow, orange, greenish, and bluish oxidation products of uranium and copper comprising gummite and containing minerals such as curite, liebigite, malachite and azurite may be developed locally in the oxidized rubble and gossans.

References

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Curite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database

Anagrams

• -uretic, Ceruti, curiet, eutric, uretic

English

Etymology

From Curie +? -ium; named after Pierre and Marie Curie.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?r'??m, IPA^(key): /?kj???i?m/

Noun

curium (uncountable)

1. A highly fissile transuranic chemical element (symbol Cm) with an atomic number of 96.

Derived terms

Related terms

• curate
• curie
• curious
• curite

Translations

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?r?jum]
• Hyphenation: cu?rium

Noun

curium n

1. curium (transuranic chemical element with an atomic number of 96)

Declension

Danish

Noun

curium

1. curium

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English curium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ky?.ri.?m/
• Hyphenation: cu?ri?um

Noun

curium n (uncountable)

1. curium

Finnish

Noun

curium

1. curium

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.?j?m/

Noun

curium m (uncountable)

1. curium

Further reading

• “curium” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ku.ri.um/, [?k??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ku.ri.um/, [?ku??ium]

Noun

curium n (genitive curi?); second declension

1. curium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kyrium/

Noun

curium n (genitive singular curia, declension pattern of mesto)

1. curium (element)

Further reading

• curium in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Swedish

Noun

curium n

1. curium

Declension