FRANCIUM, Fr (87)

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FRANCIUM

Fr (87)

ˈfrænsiəm

PHONETICS

Francium is the second-least electronegative element, behind only caesium and is a highly radioactive metal that decays into astatine, radium, and radon. As an alkali metal, it has one valence electron. Bulk francium has never been viewed as it is assumed to be a highly reflective metal, if enough could be collected to be viewed as a bulk solid or liquid. With the extreme heat of decay (half-life of its longest-lived isotope is 22 minutes) it would immediately vaporise any viewable quantity of the element.

ELEMENT BRIEF

1939 by Marguerite Perey, France.

DISCOVERY

From the name of France.

ETYMOLOGY

Francium

ELEMENT

Fr

SYMBOL

87

ATOMIC NUMBER

7440-73-5

CAS NUMBER
element

ELEMENTAL SPECTRUM


Silver

ELEMENTAL COLOUR


-

REFRACTIVE INDEX


-

POISSON RATIO


79.650 cm³

MOLAR VOLUME


-

BRINELL HARDNESS


-

MOHS HARDNESS


-

VICKERS HARDNESS


-

SPEED OF SOUND


-

BULK MODULUS


-

SHEAR MODULUS


-

YOUNG MODULUS


ALLOTROPES

NONE

-

MELTING POINT


-

BOILING POINT


-

AUTOMATIC IGNITION


-

FLASHPOINT


377.00 K, 103.85 °C

CRITICAL TEMPERATURE


6.28M Pa, 62 Atm

CRITICAL PRESSURE


0.003'610 W/(m K)

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY


-

THERMAL EXPANSION


-

SPECIFIC HEAT


2.000 kJ/mol

HEAT FUSION


65.000 kJ/mol

HEAT VAPORISATION


-

HEAT COMBUSTION


-

CURIE POINT


-

NEEL POINT


-

ADIABATIC INDEX


Gas

PHASE

-

ELECTRICAL TYPE


-

CONDUCTIVITY


-

RESISTIVITY


-

SUPERCONDUCTING POINT


-

MAGNETIC TYPE


-

MASS SUSCEPTIBILITY


-

MOLAR SUSCEPTIBILITY


-

VOLUME SUSCEPTIBILITY

Alkali Metal

CLASSIFICATION


223.019'736'0

ATOMIC WEIGHT


-

ATOMIC RADIUS


223 pm

COVALENT RADIUS SINGLE BOND


218 pm

COVALENT RADIUS DOUBLE BOND


-

COVALENT RADIUS TRIPLE BOND


348 pm

VAN DER WAALS RADIUS


[Rn]7s¹

ELECTRON CONFIGURATION


Cubic, Body-centred

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE


>2.800'00 g/cm³

DENSITY AS SOLID


3.000'00 g/cm³

DENSITY AS LIQUID


-

DENSITY AS GAS


-

SPACE GROUP NAME


-

SPACE GROUP NUMBER


-

LATTICE ANGLES


-

LATTICE CONSTANTS

3

VALENCE


0.7

ELECTRONEGATIVITY


-67.54 kJ/mol

ELECTRON AFFINITY


IONISATION ENERGY

element

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UNIVERSE


-

METEORITES


-

SUN


-

EARTH CRUST


-

OCEANS


-

HUMANS

21.67 minutes

HALF LIFE


31.67 minutes

LIFETIME


7s¹ = 7, 0, 0, +1/2

QUANTUM NUMBERS


12.600'00 b σs

NEUTRON CROSS SECTION


-

NEUTRON MASS ABSORPTION


STABLE ISOTOPES

NONE


UNSTABLE ISOTOPES

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