87 Fr Francium [223]
Alkali metal
Francium 钫
[Rn] 7s¹
- Period 7
- Group 1
- Block s
- Solid
Electron configuration
1s² 2s² 2p⁶ 3s² 3p⁶ 3d¹⁰ 4s² 4p⁶ 4d¹⁰ 4f¹⁴ 5s² 5p⁶ 5d¹⁰ 6s² 6p⁶ 7s¹
Orbital diagram (valence)
- Electrons per shell
- 2, 8, 18, 32, 18, 8, 1
- Unpaired electrons
- 1
- Zeff (Slater)
- 2.20
Properties
- Atomic weight
- [223]
- Electronegativity (Pauling)
- 0.7
- First ionization energy
- 376.3 kJ/mol
- Electron affinity
- 45.35 kJ/mol
- Covalent radius
- 260 pm
- van der Waals radius
- 348 pm
- Melting point
- 300 K
- Boiling point
- no data
- Density
- no data
- Melting / boiling point
- 26.9 °C / —
- Common oxidation states
- +1
- Discovered
- 1939
Brackets give the mass number of the longest-lived isotope
Periodic trend
Data: PubChem periodic table (public domain); atomic weights are IUPAC abridged standard values; covalent radii from Cordero et al. (2008).