{"id":247,"date":"2020-04-09T10:09:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T10:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thechemicalelements.com\/?page_id=247"},"modified":"2023-08-15T14:29:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T14:29:34","slug":"americium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechemicalelements.com\/americium\/","title":{"rendered":"Americium (Am)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Americium is a transuranic element with the symbol Am and atomic number 95 in the periodic table of elements<\/a> that belongs to the family of actinides. This radioactive substance was discovered as the fourth synthetic transuranium element in the list of fifteen radioactive metallic elements that include actinium<\/a>, thorium<\/a>, protactinium<\/a>, uranium<\/a>, neptunium<\/a>, plutonium<\/a>, americium, curium<\/a>, berkelium<\/a>, californium<\/a>, einsteinium<\/a>, fermium<\/a>, mendelevium<\/a>, nobelium<\/a>, and lawrencium<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\nChemical and Physical Properties of Americium <\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n