Californium Cf · 98
solid metal · period 7 · f-block· actinide
Anatomy
Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Californium
History of the character
Every form found in the sources, from the first missionary chemistry books of the 1850s to the current standards. Hover a dot for the source. Simplified 锎, traditional 鐦, Taiwan 鉲 kǎ.
- 1951 鐦 kāi 化學命名原則（修訂） Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, PRC revision, Academia Sinica / Ministry of Education, PRC simplified to 锎 rather than 钘, to avoid the wine vessel 鈃
- today 鉲 kǎ 臺灣正體（國家教育研究院） Current Taiwan standard, National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Elsewhere
Japanese カリホルニウム Korean 캘리포늄 Vietnamese californi
Western name from English California. Compare all
Unicode
U+950E in CJK Unified Ideographs
Element discovered 1950.