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Uses of Curium and Americium


Uses of Americium and Curium


Uses

Uses & Benefits
  • Curium metal is used to provide power to electrical equipment for space missions.
  
  • Americium metal is used in smoke detection alarms.
  • In the future, this metal has a potential to be used in batteries of spacecrafts.
  

Industrial Uses
NA   
NA   

Medical Uses
NA   
NA   

Other Uses
Research Purposes   
Alloys, Nuclear Research, Research Purposes   

Biological Properties
  
  

Toxicity
Unknown   
Toxic   

Present in Human Body
No   
No   

In Blood
0.00 Blood/mg dm-3   
37
0.00 Blood/mg dm-3   
37

In Bone
0.00 p.p.m.   
36
0.00 p.p.m.   
36

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