Periodic Videos | Californium - Periodic Table of Videos @periodicvideos | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
An extensive video about Californium, which reportedly costs up to $27m per gram. We go to where it's made in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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This video features Professor Martyn Poliakoff at the University of Nottingham.
And Julie Ezold and Rose Boll at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory: ornl.gov

Also thanks to Andrew Gaunt for providing photos relating to the paper "Isolation and characterization of a californium metallocene": nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04027-8

Thanks to The Royal Society of Chemistry for supporting this episode: rsc.org

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