Francium is element 87, an alkali metal of the s block, in group 1, period 7. Its ground-state configuration is [Rn] 7s1, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 1.
It was discovered in 1939, by Perey.
Name origin: Francia, the New Latin name for France.
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