californium

See also: Californium

English

Chemical element
Cf
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A piece of californium.

A cask for transporting californium-252. Note the very thick radiation shielding for only a small amount of californium.

Etymology

From California +‎ -ium. The element was first synthesized at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (then the University of California Radiation Laboratory), thus named after the university and the U.S. state of California.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kălĭfôr'nēəm
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkælɪˈfɔɹniəm/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkælɪˈfɔːniəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

californium (uncountable)

1. A strongly radioactive and highly fissile transuranic chemical element (symbol Cf) with an atomic number of 98.

Derived terms

• californium-252
• californium oxide
• californium oxychloride
• californium trichloride

Related terms

• californate
• California
• Californian
• californite

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: kalifornium (af)
• Albanian: kalefornium
• Arabic: كَالِيفُورْنِيُوم m (kaliforniyum)
• Armenian: կալիֆոռնիում (kalifoṙnium)
• Asturian: californiu (ast) m
• Basque: kalifornioa
• Belarusian: каліфо́рній m (kalifórnij)
• Breton: kaliforniom (br)
• Bulgarian: калифо́рний m (kalifórnij)
• Catalan: californi (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鉲 / 𰽩 (zh) (kāi)

• Cornish: calyfornyum
• Czech: kalifornium (cs)
• Danish: californium (da)
• Dutch: californium (nl) n
• Esperanto: kaliforniumo (eo)
• Estonian: kalifornium (et)
• Faroese: kalifornium n
• Finnish: kalifornium (fi)
• French: californium (fr) m
• Friulian: californi
• Galician: californio (gl)
• Georgian: კალიფორნიუმი (ḳaliporniumi)
• German: Californium (de) n
• Greek: καλιφόρνιο (el) n (kalifórnio)
• Hebrew: קליפורניום (he) (kalifórniyum)
• Hungarian: kalifornium (hu)
• Icelandic: kalifornín (is)
• Irish: calafoirniam
• Italian: californio (it) m
• Japanese: カリホルニウム (ja) (karihoruniumu)
• Kashubian: kalifòrn
• Kazakh: калифорний (kk) (kalifornii)
• Korean: 칼리포르늄 (ko) (kalliporeunyum), 캘리포늄 (kaelliponyum)
• Latin: californium (la)
• Latvian: kalifornijs
• Lithuanian: kalifornis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Kalifornium
• Macedonian: калифорниум m (kalifornium)
• Malay: kalifornium
• Maltese: kalifornjum
• Manx: californium
• Mongolian: калифорни (kaliforni)
• Norwegian: californium
• Persian: کالیفرنیم (kâliforniom)
• Polish: kaliforn (pl) m
• Portuguese: califórnio (pt) m
• Romanian: californiu (ro) n
• Russian: калифо́рний (ru) m (kalifórnij)
• Scottish Gaelic: calafoirniam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: калифорниј m, калифорнијум m

  Roman: kalifornij (sh), kalifornijum

• Slovak: kalifornium
• Slovene: kalifornij (sl)
• Spanish: californio (es) m
• Swedish: californium (sv) n
• Tajik: [Term?] (kaliforni')
• Tamil: கலிபோர்ணியம் (kalipōrṇiyam)
• Thai: แคลิฟอร์เนียม (kɛɛ-lí-fɔɔ-nîiam)
• Turkish: kaliforniyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: каліфо́рній (uk) m (kalifórnij)
• Uzbek: калифорний (kaliforniy), kaliforniy
• Vietnamese: califoni
• Volapük: kalifornin (vo)
• Welsh: califforniwm
• West Frisian: californium

Danish

Chemical element
Cf
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Etymology

Borrowed from English californium, which is in turn from California.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kalifɒːnjɔm/
• Rhymes: -ɔm

Noun

californium n (singular definite californiummet, not used in plural form)

1. (chemistry) californium

Inflection

Declension of californium

gender	Singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	californium	californiummet
genitive	californiums	californiummets

References

• “californium” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Chemical element
Cf
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Next: einsteinium (Es)

Etymology

Borrowed from English californium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkaː.liˈfɔr.ni.ʏm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ca‧li‧for‧ni‧um

Noun

californium n (uncountable)

1. californium [from 1950]

Related terms

• Californië

French

Chemical element
Cf
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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.li.fɔʁ.njɔm/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

californium m (uncountable)

1. californium

Latin

Chemical element
Cf
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Next: einsteinium (Es)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ka.liˈfor.ni.um/, [kälʲɪˈfɔrniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.liˈfor.ni.um/, [käliˈfɔrnium]

Noun

californium n (genitive californiī); second declension

1. californium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	californium	california
genitive	californiī	californiōrum
dative	californiō	californiīs
accusative	californium	california
ablative	californiō	californiīs
vocative	californium	california

Swedish

Chemical element
Cf
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Next: einsteinium (Es)

Etymology

Borrowed from English californium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kalɪˈfoːrnɪɵm/, [kal̪ɪˈfoːɳɪɵm]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

californium n

1. californium

Declension

Declension of californium

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	californium	californiums
	definite	californiumet	californiumets
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Declension of californium

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	californium	californiums
	definite	californiet	californiets
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Declension of californium

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	californium	californiums
	definite	californium	californiums
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

References

• californium in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• Svensk MeSH