Americium (Am)
- Atomic Number: 95
- Atomic Weight: 243
- Melting Point: 994
- Boiling Point: 2607
- Specific Gravity: 13.67
- Valences: 2,3,4,5 or 6
Americium was produced in 1944 by Seaborg, James, Morgan, and Ghiorso in Chicago.
Americium is a radioactive metal that emits gamma rays.
Therefore it is a portable source of gamma radiography.
Americium is used in the flat glass industry to measure glass thickness.
It is named in honour of the Americas.
[LM]
{RW}
Webpages that Work! Zeuter Development Corporation
Post Office Box 225, Parry Sound, Ontario, CANADA P2A 2X3
Copyright © Zeuter Development Corporation, 1996-2022. All rights reserved.