9 example sentences using americium.
Americium used in a sentence
Americium in a sentence as a noun
Maybe there's americium in the Buds to detect smoke coming out of one's ears?
Could you stick a smoke detector in a smoke-filled bag with the americium pulled out to make a geiger counter?
For many years people did not realized it, but all Smoke detectors had radioactive americium 241.
I did this as a kid - serious fun. Used the americium from a smoke detector as a source, after several abortive attempts to build a synchrotron...
He was arrested again in 2007 for collecting smoke detectors to collect americium.
This man was standing at his stove, smoking, cooking up a mixture of beryllium, radium, and americium in 96% sulfuric acid.
Except that americium dioxide is insoluble[0], so it wouldn't dissolve in the water supply.
A lot of smoke detectors use the radioactive isotope americium-241 in an ionization process to detect smoke.
He admits to contaminating his stove and the surrounding area with americium, radium, and beryllium.
Americium definitions
a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms