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Americium is widely used in commercial ionization... Pure americium has a silvery and white... It is unlikely that Americium would be used as a weapons material... Americium can be produced in... Americium is the only synthetic element to have found its way into the household... of americium have been characterized... chemistry of americium is important as in several areas of the world... Americium dioxide is used in smoke detectors... This is because americium is very hard to oxidise above the... as it is the case that americium and the other transplutonium elements are responsible for the majority of the long lived radiotoxicity...

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