Facts About Nihonium and Americium
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- Americium metal is produced by bombarding Plutonium with Neutrons.
- Americium metal was discovered as a by-product while testing an atomic bomb (Manhattan Project).
  
Sources
Synthetically Produced
  
Obtained By Bombarding Plutonium with Neutrons
  
History
  
  
Who Discovered
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  
Glenn T. Seaborg, Ralph A. James, Leon O. Morgan, Albert Ghiorso
  
Discovery
In 2003
  
In 1944
  
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