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Can someone explain to me what the element Americium is?

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It's a radioactive chemical element. It's symbol is AM and the atomic number is 95. It is a transuranic member of the actinide series, in the periodic table located under the lanthanide element europium, and thus by analogy was named after the Americas.
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