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.
- Strontium metal is used to producing ferrite magnets as well as refining zinc.
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By-product of nuclear reactors called Strontium-90 is a radioactive isotope; it is absorbed by tissues and destroys bone marrow and cancer growth.
1.1.1 Industrial Uses
NA
Ammunition Industry, Chemical Industry
1.1.2 Medical Uses
1.1.3 Other Uses
Alloys, Nuclear Research, Research Purposes
Alloys
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-30.03 Blood/mg dm-3
0
1970
1.2.4 In Bone
0.00 p.p.m.140.00 p.p.m.
0
170000