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The name of the chemical element americium is derived from the name of the continent America.

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What is the origin of the element americium?

Americium is an artificial element, prepared in laboratories.


What is the origin of americium?

Americium is an artificial chemical element obtained in nuclear reactors.


What is the latin word for americium?

also americium


What is the English word for americium who discovered them and when did the discovery occurred?

The English word for americium is "americium". It was first (intentionally) synthesized in 1944 by a team at the University of California, Berkeley's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, though some of the earlier experiments by the same laboratory had probably also produced small amounts of americium.


Is americium toxic?

Americium is oxydable in air.


What does the element americium smell like?

Americium has no odor.


Is americium a lanthanide?

No. Americium is an actinide.


Is americium combustible?

Americium is not combustible.


What is americium's ductility?

americium is not ductile.


What is the geographical location on americium?

Americium is an artificial element; americium don't exist in the nature.


What is am element?

Element Am is Americium. Americium is radioactive element number ninety five. I would not wanna mess with Americium


What is the symbol for americium?

The chemical symbol of americium is Am.