My periodic table poster is now available! Curium does not occur in nature, but it can be created in nuclear reactors and it has a few industrial applications. It is extremely radioactive, extremely toxic, and extremely hard to get. Compare at other websites: periodictable.com Wikipedia WebElements Museum Display Minerals Translations and Etymology Science Fiction (Main Site) Comics Collections: Poster Samples Elements I Need Samples Of Samples with Rotatable Images Samples with High Resolution Spin Movies Sample from the Everest Set. Up until the early 1990's a company in Russia sold a periodic table collection with element samples. At some point their American distributor sold off the remaining stock to a man who is now selling them on eBay. The samples (except gases) weigh about 0.25 grams each, and the whole set comes in a very nice wooden box with a printed periodic table in the lid. Radioactive elements like this one are represented in this particular set by a non-radioactive dummy powder, which doesn't look anything like the real element. (In this case a sample of the pure element isn't really practical anyway.) To learn more about the set you can visit my page about element collecting for a general description and information about how to buy one, or you can see photographs of all the samples from the set displayed on my website in a periodic table layout or with bigger pictures in numerical order. Source: Rob Accurso Contributor: Rob Accurso Acquired: 7 February, 2003 Text Updated: 29 January, 2009 Price: Donated Size: 0.2" Purity: 0% Poster sample. This photograph of Marie Curie appears in my Photographic Periodic Table Poster representing curium, which is named after her. This highly unstable element can't reasonably be photographed, and a picture of its namesake seemed like a reasonable alternative. The sample photograph includes text exactly as it appears in the poster, which you are encouraged to buy a copy of. This photo is Copyright (c) The Nobel Foundation, used with permission. Source: Max Whitby of RGB Contributor: Max Whitby of RGB Acquired: 15 April, 2006 Text Updated: 4 May, 2007 Price: Donated Size: 6" Purity: 0% Marie Curie commemorative medal. A brass or copper commemorative medal issued in 1967 to honor the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marie Curie, who discovered radium, and after whom curium is named. Source: eBay seller mrherola Contributor: Theodore Gray Acquired: 23 December, 2007 Text Updated: 23 December, 2007 Price: $40 Size: 2.75" Purity: 0% Photo Card Deck of the Elements. In late 2006 I published a photo periodic table and it's been selling well enough to encourage me to make new products. This one is a particularly neat one: A complete card deck of the elements with one big five-inch (12.7cm) square card for every element. If you like this site and all the pictures on it, you'll love this card deck. And of course if you're wondering what pays for all the pictures and the internet bandwidth to let you look at them, the answer is people buying my posters and cards decks. Hint hint. Source: Theodore Gray Contributor: Theodore Gray Acquired: 19 November, 2008 Text Updated: 21 November, 2008 Price: $35 Size: 5" Composition: HHeLiBeBCNOFNeNaMg AlSiPSClArKCaScTiVCrMn FeCoNiCuZnGaGeAsSeBrKr RbSrYZrNbMoTcRuRhPdAg CdInSnSbTeIXeCsBaLaCePr NdPmSmEuGdTbDyHoErTm YbLuHfTaWReOsIrPtAuHgTl PbBiPoAtRnFrRaAcThPaUNp PuAmCmBkCfEsFmMdNoLrRf DbSgBhHsMtDsRgUubUutUuq UupUuhUusUuo    My periodic table poster is now available!