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Americium (AM)
A silvery metal; it is a man-made element whose isotopes am-237 through am-246 are radioactive. Am-241 is formed spontaneously by the beta decay of plutonium-241. Trace quantities of americium are widely used in smoke detectors and as neutron sources in neutron moisture gauges.
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