Americium(II) bromide or americium dibromide is the
chemical compound
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composed of an
americium
Americium is a synthetic radioactive chemical element with the symbol Am and atomic number 95. It is a transuranic member of the actinide series, in the periodic table located under the lanthanide element europium, and thus by analogy was na ...
cation in the +2 oxidation state and 2
bromide ions in each formula unit, with the
formula
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AmBr
2.
[Penneman, R. A. and Keenan T. K]
The radiochemistry of americium and curium
University of California, Los Alamos, California, 1960
References
Americium compounds
Bromides
Actinide halides
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