Americium Hoodies

A bedazzling Americium design. Americium is a radioactive transuranic chemical element with symbol Am and atomic number 95. This member of the actinide series is located in the periodic table under the lanthanide element europium, and thus by analogy was named after the Americas. Americium was first produced in 1944 by the group of Glenn T. Seaborg from Berkeley, California, at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago, a part of the Manhattan Project. Brought to you by Periodic-Tees.com

Am is the periodic table element symbol for the radioactive metal americium.

The orbitals are swirling in Storistir to make holiday ornaments! Americium, element 95, is found in ionization smoke detectors, which typically detect flaming fires quickly. Americium was first synthesized by the University of Chicago team under James Seaborg.

The actinides are not only radioactive, but they have been used in warfare. Little Boy was an uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Fat Man was a plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

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