Americium is element 95, an actinoid of the f block, in period 7. Its ground-state configuration is [Rn] 5f7 7s2, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 3, 4, 5.
It was discovered in 1944, by Seaborg.
Name origin: America, as the element was first synthesized in the USA.
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