americium

chemical element with symbol Am and atomic number 95
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americium

Summary

americium is a chemical element[1]. americium draws 1,914 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 instance of is recorded as chemical element[4].
  • Americas is named after americium[5].
  • americium's canonical SMILES is recorded as [Am][6].
  • americium's element symbol is recorded as Am[7].
  • americium's chemical formula is recorded as Am[8].
  • americium is part of period 7[9].
  • americium is part of actinide[10].
  • americium's Commons category is recorded as Americium[11].
  • americium's Unicode character is recorded as 鋂[12].
  • americium's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 1944[13].
  • americium's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Americium[14].
  • americium's Commons gallery is recorded as Americium[15].
  • americium's atomic number is recorded as {'amount': '+95'}[16].
  • americium's electronegativity is recorded as {'amount': '+1.13'}[17].
  • americium's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[18].
  • americium's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox americium[19].
  • americium's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q483261', 'amount': '+243'}[20].
  • americium's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21].
  • americium's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Elements[22].
  • americium's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject California[23].
  • americium's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area[24].
  • americium's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject University of California[25].

Body

Definition and Type

americium's instance of is recorded as chemical element[4].

Origins

Americas is named after americium[5].

Use and Application

Part of include period 7[9], a period[26] and actinide[10], a chemical series[27].

Why It Matters

americium draws 1,914 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. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Atomic weights of the elements 2009 (IUPAC Technical Report). wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . cns11643.gov.tw. Retrieved . cns11643.gov.tw. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . RCSB protein data bank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [27] . 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. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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