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Answer 1

Its position on the periodic table and its chemical properties based on that position
Typical compounds formed by your element
The history of your element's discovery
Five uses for your element or its common compounds
Where your element or its compounds can be found in the real world
At least one photo or drawing of your element

Answer 2

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Answer 3

This isn't chemistry its Earth and Space Science so its neither! @Abhisar

Answer 4

oh you guys you don't have to do the drawing! sorry I didn't mean to put that on there

Answer 5

Element: Americium.

Typical compounds formed:
Americium dioxide is perhaps the most important of the americium compounds, because it is used to create the other compounds of americium. Americium dioxide (AmO2) can be obtained by igniting most forms of the trivalent solution of Americium.

There are also solid states of americium compounds, which are most commonly found as tetravalent compounds. These tetravalent compounds are the result of AmO2 being treated with fluoride. The result of combining these elements is americium fluoride (AmF3).

History of discovery:
Although americium was likely produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in late autumn 1944, at the University of California, Berkeley, by Glenn T. Seaborg, Leon O. Morgan, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso. They used a 60-inch cyclotron at the University of California, Berkeley.[4] The element was chemically identified at the Metallurgical Laboratory (now Argonne National Laboratory) of the University of Chicago. Following the lighter neptunium, plutonium, and heavier curium, americium was the fourth transuranium element to be discovered. (wikipedia).

This element is not naturally occuring and cannot be found in the real world. However, it is used in smoke detectors.

5 Uses:
1) It is widely used in commercial ionization chamber smoke detectors.
2) It is also used in neutron sources and industrial gauges

Answer 6

That's 3. Abhisar, can you think of 2 more sources/applications?

Answer 7

It's a transuranic element and is posioned in f block, so its chemical properties should be similar to typical f-block elements of group 7

Answer 8

Applications:

1 Ionization detectors
2 Radionuclide
3 Neutron source
4 Production of other elements
5 Spectrometer

Answer 9

Thanks @bioepic and @abhisar

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Answer 11

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Answer 12

How @Abhisar

Answer 13

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