1 Uses
1.1 Uses & Benefits
- Americium metal is used in smoke detection alarms.
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In the future, this metal has a potential to be used in batteries of spacecrafts.
- It is a highly radioactive metal; and sometime Radium-223 is used to treat prostate cancer.
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It is used in luminous paints.
1.1.1 Industrial Uses
1.1.2 Medical Uses
NA
Pharmaceutical Industry
1.1.3 Other Uses
Alloys, Nuclear Research, Research Purposes
NA
1.2 Biological Properties
1.2.1 Toxicity
1.2.2 Present in Human Body
1.2.3 In Blood
0.00 Blood/mg dm-3NA
0
1970
1.2.5 In Bone