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.

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Also thanks to Andrew Gaunt for providing photos relating to the paper "Isolation and characterization of a californium metallocene": [ Ссылка ]

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