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Berkelium is a synthetic, radioactive actinide created in particle accelerators and used only in small amounts for research into heavy element chemistry.<\/p>\n

Properties of Berkelium<\/strong> | It exhibits typical actinide chemistry with +3 oxidation state predominating and is highly radioactive with short half lives for available isotopes.<\/p>\n

Uses of Berkelium<\/strong> | No commercial applications exist; berkelium is produced for fundamental research into actinide behavior and nuclear properties.<\/p>\n

Isotopes of Berkelium<\/strong> | Berkelium isotopes are radioactive and handled in specialized facilities with remote manipulation and radiological safeguards.<\/p>\n

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Short lived synthetic actinide produced for scientific research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2854,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions\/2854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}