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CURIUMS
Definition of CURIUMS
Wiktionary has no entry for CURIUMS itself. This is its base word, CURIUM.
noun
A radioactive and highly fissile, silver-grey, metallic, transuranic chemical element (symbol Cm) with an atomic number of 96, which is artificially produced in a particle accelerator. An atom of this element.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for CURIUM.
From Curie + -ium (suffix forming names of metallic elements), coined by the American scientists Glenn T. Seaborg (1912–1999), Ralph A. James (1920–1973), and Albert Ghiorso (1915–2010), who synthesized the element in 1944 and named it in honour of Pierre Curie (1859–1906) and Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867–1934) who, with Henri Becquerel, were awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries in radioactivity.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CURIE · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CURIUMS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 48, 7 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 53, 12 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CURIUMS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CIMRSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 48
Could you have found CURIUMS?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 48 - and most players walked straight past it.
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