Actinium is element 89, an actinoid of the f block, in period 7. Its ground-state configuration is [Rn] 6d1 7s2, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 3.
It was discovered in 1899, by Debierne.
Name origin: the Greek aktis, 'ray'.
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