Francium

FRANCIUM // "I'm to chic for you to handle" //

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 * Basics **

Atomic weight: 223 Melting point: 300 K (27 degrees Celsius or 81 degrees Fahrenheit) Phase at room temperature: Solid Element classification: Metal ** ||
 * ** Atomic number: 87

​Discovery
 * * Discovered by Marguerite Perey in 1939
 * Curie Institute, Paris, France
 * Last element discovered in nature
 * Discovered from purifying a sample of actinium-227
 * Mostly synthesized through the process: Au (197) + O (18) ---> Fr (210) + 5n ||




 * Radioactivity**


 * * Highly radioactive; decays into astatine, radium, and radon
 * Least stable naturally occurring element; most stable isotope, Fr-223, has half-life of only 22 minutes
 * Research has been conducted in search of using its radioactivity to detect various types of cancer; deemed impractical ||



Random Interesting Facts
 * * NO commercial use for francium
 * Only one ounce exists at any given time in Earth's crust
 * Research to discover the element began in 1870, and it was once named "eka-cesium"
 * <span style="color: #b41db4; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">It is impossible to make a francium bomb; the largest quantity of francium discovered at once was only 10,000 atoms, which combine to be the size of the tip of a needle! ||