95 - Americium


Americium metal chunks.

                   
Left: Americium (III). Here colorless, but pale-red in higher concentrations.        Right: Americium (IV)


Americium (IV) and Americium (VI), in sodium carbonate solution.


Americium oxide.


The triangle in the glass tube contains the world's first sample of americium (as the hydroxide), produced in the 60-inch cyclotron in 1944.

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