US Politics on Sidechat | Fun fact: Fire alarms have trace amounts of americium, a radioactive, synthetic metal that’s the highest-numbered element on the periodic table with significant everyday uses. You probably have one of the largest amounts of this element in the universe.

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Fun fact: Fire alarms have trace amounts of americium, a radioactive, synthetic metal that’s the highest-numbered element on the periodic table with significant everyday uses. You probably have one of the largest amounts of this element in the universe.

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Anonymous 2w

They named the element after America 🇺🇸

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Anonymous

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If you look at most of the elements around that area of the table they’re usually named after the person who discovered them, the city or country they were discovered in, or a historically significant scientist. Curium, europium, livermorium, berkelium, etc

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