actinium

chemical element with symbol Ac and atomic number 89
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actinium

Summary

actinium is a chemical element[1]. actinium draws 455 Wikipedia views per month (chemical_element category, ranking #99 of 144).[2]

Key Facts

  • actinium is credited with the discovery of André-Louis Debierne[3].
  • actinium's image is recorded as Actinium sample (31481701837).png[4].
  • actinium's instance of is recorded as chemical element[5].
  • actinium's instance of is recorded as radioactive element[6].
  • light beam is named after actinium[7].
  • actinium's GND ID is recorded as 4523163-1[8].
  • actinium's CAS Registry Number is recorded as 7440-34-8[9].
  • actinium's canonical SMILES is recorded as [Ac][10].
  • actinium's InChI is recorded as InChI=1S/Ac[11].
  • actinium's InChIKey is recorded as QQINRWTZWGJFDB-UHFFFAOYSA-N[12].
  • actinium's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85000706[13].
  • actinium's element symbol is recorded as Ac[14].
  • actinium's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 121509422[15].
  • actinium's chemical formula is recorded as Ac[16].
  • actinium's part of is recorded as group 3[17].
  • actinium's part of is recorded as period 7[18].
  • actinium's Commons category is recorded as Actinium[19].
  • actinium's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D000186[20].
  • actinium's Unicode character is recorded as 錒[21].
  • actinium's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 67637[22].
  • actinium's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1899-00-00T00:00:00Z[23].
  • actinium's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/027sjs4[24].
  • actinium's UNII is recorded as NIK1K0956U[25].
  • actinium's ChemSpider ID is recorded as 22404[26].
  • actinium's PubChem CID is recorded as 23965[27].

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Works and Contributions

actinium is credited with the discovery of André-Louis Debierne[3]. Things named for actinium include protactinium[28], a chemical element[29] and actinide[30], a chemical series[31].

Why It Matters

actinium draws 455 Wikipedia views per month (chemical_element category, ranking #99 of 144).[2] actinium has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] actinium is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for actinium include protactinium[28], a chemical element[29] and actinide[30], a chemical series[31].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (78th edition). wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Global Substance Registration System. Retrieved . commonchemistry.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Atomic weights of the elements 2009 (IUPAC Technical Report). wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . cns11643.gov.tw. Retrieved . cns11643.gov.tw. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Global Substance Registration System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Q2311683. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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