Actinium
"Actinium" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Actinium. A trivalent radioactive element and the prototypical member of the actinide family. It has the atomic symbol Ac, atomic number 89, and atomic weight 227.0278. Its principal isotope is 227 and decays primarily by beta-emission.
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D000186
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.268.271.100.033 D01.268.556.025 D01.552.020.042 D01.552.544.025
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