americium

chemical element with symbol Am and atomic number 95
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americium

Summary

americium is a chemical element[1]. americium draws 541 Wikipedia views per month (chemical_element category, ranking #77 of 144).[2]

Key Facts

  • americium is credited with the discovery of Glenn T. Seaborg[3].
  • americium's image is recorded as Americium microscope.jpg[4].
  • americium's instance of is recorded as chemical element[5].
  • Americas is named after americium[6].
  • americium's GND ID is recorded as 4191405-3[7].
  • americium's CAS Registry Number is recorded as 7440-35-9[8].
  • americium's EC number is recorded as 231-144-4[9].
  • americium's canonical SMILES is recorded as [Am][10].
  • americium's InChI is recorded as InChI=1S/Am[11].
  • americium's InChIKey is recorded as LXQXZNRPTYVCNG-UHFFFAOYSA-N[12].
  • americium's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85004443[13].
  • americium's element symbol is recorded as Am[14].
  • americium's chemical formula is recorded as Am[15].
  • americium's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00575178[16].
  • americium's part of is recorded as period 7[17].
  • americium's part of is recorded as actinide[18].
  • americium's Commons category is recorded as Americium[19].
  • americium's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q150 (fra)-Guilhelma-américium.wav[20].
  • americium's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D000576[21].
  • americium's Unicode character is recorded as 鋂[22].
  • americium's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1944-00-00T00:00:00Z[23].
  • americium's PDB structure ID is recorded as 4ZHG[24].
  • americium's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/027sxty[25].
  • americium's UNII is recorded as VW92PHU2UY[26].
  • americium's ChemSpider ID is recorded as 22405[27].

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Works and Contributions

americium is credited with the discovery of Glenn T. Seaborg[3].

Why It Matters

americium draws 541 Wikipedia views per month (chemical_element category, ranking #77 of 144).[2] americium has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] americium is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Global Substance Registration System. Retrieved . commonchemistry.cas.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Global Substance Registration System. Retrieved . 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] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . lingualibre.org. lingualibre.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . cns11643.gov.tw. Retrieved . cns11643.gov.tw. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Protein Data Bank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Global Substance Registration System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Q2311683. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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