Template:Infobox americium

Americium, 95Am
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Americium
Pronunciation/ˌæməˈrɪsiəm/ (AM-ə-RISS-ee-əm)
Appearancesillery white
Mass number[243]
Americium in the periodic cairt
Hydrogen Helium
Lithium Beryllium Boron Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Fluorine Neon
Sodium Magnesium Aluminium Silicon Phosphorus Sulfur Chlorine Argon
Potassium Calcium Scandium Titanium Vanadium Chromium Manganese Airn Cobalt Nickel Capper Zinc Gallium Germanium Arsenic Selenium Bromine Krypton
Rubidium Strontium Yttrium Zirconium Niobium Molybdenum Technetium Ruthenium Rhodium Palladium Siller (element) Cadmium Indium Tin Antimony Tellurium Iodine Xenon
Caesium Barium Lanthanum Cerium Praseodymium Neodymium Promethium Samarium Europium Gadolinium Terbium Dysprosium Holmium Erbium Thulium Ytterbium Lutetium Hafnium Tantalum Tungsten Rhenium Osmium Iridium Platinum Gowd Mercur (element) Thallium Leid (element) Bismuth Polonium Astatine Radon
Francium Radium Actinium Thorium Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Hassium Meitnerium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicium Ununtrium Flerovium Ununpentium Livermorium Ununseptium Ununoctium
Eu

Am

(Uqs)
plutoniumamericiumcurium
Atomic nummer (Z)95
Groupgroup n/a
Periodperiod 7
Blockf-block
Element category  Actinide
Electron confeeguration[Rn] 5f7 7s2
Electrons per shell2, 8, 18, 32, 25, 8, 2
Pheesical properties
Phase at STPsolit
Meltin pynt1449 K ​(1176 °C, ​2149 °F)
Bylin pynt2880 K ​(2607 °C, ​4725 °F) (calculatit)
Density (near r.t.)12 g/cm3
Heat o fusion14.39 kJ/mol
Molar heat capacity62.7 J/(mol·K)
Vapour pressur
P (Pa) 1 10 100 1 k 10 k 100 k
at T (K) 1239 1356
Atomic properties
Oxidation states+2, +3, +4, +5, +6, +7 (an amphoteric oxide)
ElectronegativityPauling scale: 1.3
Ionisation energies
  • 1st: 578 kJ/mol
Atomic radiusempirical: 173 pm
Covalent radius180±6 pm
Colour lines in a spectral range
Colour lines in a spectral range
Spectral lines o americium
Ither properties
Naitural occurrencesynthetic
Creestal structur ​dooble hexagonal close packed
Thermal conductivity10 W/(m·K)
Electrical resistivity0.69 µΩ·m[1]
Magnetic orderinparamagnetic
CAS Nummer7440-35-9
History
Naminefter the Americas
DiskiveryGlenn T. Seaborg, Ralph A. James, Leon O. Morgan, Albert Ghiorso (1944)
Main isotopes o americium
Iso­tope Abun­dance Hauf-life (t1/2) Decay mode Pro­duct
241Am syn 432.2 y SF
α 237Np 242mAm syn 141 y IT 242Am
α 238Np
SF
243Am syn 7370 y SF
α 239Np
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C 1176
K 1449 1449 0
F 2149 2149 0
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C 2607
K 2880 2880 0
F 4725 4725 0
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References

  1. Muller, W.; Schenkel, R.; Schmidt, H. E.; Spirlet, J. C.; McElroy, D. L.; Hall, R. O. A.; Mortimer, M. J. (1978). "The electrical resistivity and specific heat of americium metal". Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 30 (5–6): 561. Bibcode:1978JLTP...30..561M. doi:10.1007/BF00116197.