americium

See also: Americium, amerícium, and américium

English

Chemical element
Am
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A smoke detector. Smoke detectors, available in US retail stores, typically contain a small amount of americium.

Etymology

From Americ(as) +‎ -ium, by analogy with europium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ămərĭs'ēəm, IPA^(key): /ˌæməˈɹɪsiəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

americium (usually uncountable, plural americiums)

2. The chemical element (symbol Am) with an atomic number of 95.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• americium bromide
• americium chloride
• americium dioxide
• americium fluoride
• americium iodide
• americyl

Related terms

• America
• American
• americate

Translations

chemical element with atomic number 95

• Afrikaans: amerisium, amerikium (af)
• Albanian: americ
• Arabic: أَمْرِيكِيُوم m (ʔamrīkiyum)
• Armenian: ամերիցիում (americʻium)
• Asturian: americiu (ast) m
• Basque: amerizioa
• Belarusian: амерыцый m (amjerycyj)
• Breton: amerikiom (br)
• Bulgarian: америций m (americij)
• Catalan: americi (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (mainland China, Hong Kong) 鎇／镅 (zh) (méi), (Taiwan) 鋂／𰾄 (zh) (méi)

• Cornish: amerycanyum
• Czech: americium (cs) n
• Danish: americium (da)
• Dutch: americium (nl) n
• Esperanto: americio (eo)
• Estonian: ameriitsium (et)
• Faroese: americium
• Finnish: amerikium (fi)
• French: américium (fr) m
• Friulian: americi
• Galician: americio (gl)
• Georgian: ამერიციუმი (americiumi)
• German: Americium (de) n
• Greek: αμερίκιο (el) n (ameríkio)
• Hebrew: אמריציום (he) (amerítsiyum)
• Hungarian: amerícium (hu)
• Icelandic: ameríkín (is)
• Irish: aimeiriciam m
• Italian: americio (it) m
• Japanese: アメリシウム (ja) (amerishiumu)
• Kashubian: amerik
• Kazakh: америций (amerisii)
• Khmer: អាមេរិស្យូម (aameirisyuum)
• Korean: 아메리슘 (ko) (amerisyum)
• Latin: americium (la) n
• Latvian: amerīcijs
• Lithuanian: americis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Amerizium
• Macedonian: америциум m (americium)
• Malay: amerisium
• Maltese: amerizjum
• Manx: americium
• Mongolian: америци (americi)
• Norwegian: americium
• Occitan: americi
• Persian: آمریکیوم (âmerikiyom)
• Polish: ameryk (pl) m
• Portuguese: amerício (pt) m
• Romanian: americiu (ro) n
• Russian: амери́ций (ru) m (amerícij)
• Scottish Gaelic: aimeiriciam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: америциjум m, америциj m

  Roman: americijum m, americij (sh) m

• Slovak: americium (sk) n
• Slovene: americij (sl) m
• Spanish: americio (es) m
• Swedish: americium (sv) n
• Tajik: америций (ameritsiy)
• Tamil: அமெரிகியம் (ta) (amerikiyam)
• Thai: อะเมริเซียม (à-mee-rí-sîiam)
• Turkish: amerikyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: америцій (uk) m (amerycij)
• Uzbek: ameritsiy

  Cyrillic: америций (uz)

• Vietnamese: Amerixi, Ameriđi (vi)
• Volapük: lamerikin (vo)
• Welsh: americiwm
• West Frisian: americium

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈamɛrɪt͡sɪjum]

Noun

americium n

1. americium (the chemical element with an atomic number of 95)

Declension

Declension of americium (semisoft neuter foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	americium	americia
genitive	americia	americií
dative	americiu	americiím
accusative	americium	americia
vocative	americium	americia
locative	americiu	americiích
instrumental	americiem	americii

Danish

Noun

americium

1. americium
   • 2006, Bogen Om Grundstofferne, Gyldendal Uddannelse, →ISBN, page 222:

     ... hvor han var med til i 1944 at opdage grundstofferne americium og curium...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2004, Gyldendal Mini-lex. Fysik, Gyldendal Uddannelse, →ISBN, page 144:

     Mens de tre første, neptunium (93), plutonium (94) og americium (95), ...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1985, Ole John Nielsen, Peter Bo, Lars Carlsen, COLUMN2 - A computer program for simulating migration, →ISBN:

     ... det atomare volumen, som måltes mellem plutonium og americium, ...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Dutch

Chemical element
Am
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Etymology

Borrowed from English americium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaː.meːˈri.(t)si.ʏm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ame‧ri‧ci‧um

Noun

americium n (uncountable)

1. americium

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.meˈri.ki.um/, [ämɛˈrɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.meˈri.t͡ʃi.um/, [ämeˈriːt͡ʃium]

Noun

americium n (genitive americiī); second declension

1. americium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	americium	americia
Genitive	americiī	americiōrum
Dative	americiō	americiīs
Accusative	americium	americia
Ablative	americiō	americiīs
Vocative	americium	americia

Romanian

Noun

americium n (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of americiu

Swedish

Chemical element
Am
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Noun

americium n

1. americium

Declension

Declension of americium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	americium	americiumet	—	—
Genitive	americiums	americiumets	—	—

Declension of americium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	americium	americiet	—	—
Genitive	americiums	americiets	—	—

Declension of americium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	americium	americium	—	—
Genitive	americiums	americiums	—	—

References

• americium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH