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This week's element is americium, which has the atomic symbol Am and the atomic number, 95.
Americium (Am), synthetic chemical element (atomic number 95) of the actinoid series of the periodic table.
Not occurring in nature, berkelium (as the isotope berkelium-243) was discovered in December 1949 by American chemists Stanley G. Thompson, Albert Ghiorso, and Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley, as a product resulting from the helium-ion (alpha-particle) bombardment of americium-241 (atomic number 95) in a 152-cm (60-inch) cyclotron.
Americium is a radioactive transuranic chemical element with symbol Am and atomic number 95.
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Lanthanoid contraction, also called lanthanide contraction, in chemistry, the steady decrease in the size of the atoms and ions of the rare earth elements with increasing atomic number from lanthanum (atomic number 57) through lutetium (atomic number 71).
Mercury is a chemical element with symbol Hg and atomic number 80.
Most of the other isotopes of californium decay to isotopes of curium (atomic number 96) via alpha decay.
The second series includes the elements yttrium (symbol Y, atomic number 39) to cadmium (symbol Cd, atomic number 48).
The actinoid series consists of 15 elements from actinium (symbol Ac, atomic number 89) to lawrencium (symbol Lr, atomic number 103).
Superheavy elements elements with atomic numbers from 100 to 118 were of considerable interest.
This energy was chosen to induce K-shell ionization of elements with atomic numbers below 30 (Z ≤ Zn).
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