-- card: 30914 from stack: in -- bmap block id: 0 -- flags: 0000 -- background id: 14320 -- name: Cs -- part contents for background part 14 ----- text ----- Cs -- part contents for background part 22 ----- text ----- Cesium -- part contents for background part 15 ----- text ----- 55 -- part contents for background part 17 ----- text ----- 132.9054 -- part contents for background part 18 ----- text ----- 1.873 -- part contents for background part 19 ----- text ----- 28.40 -- part contents for background part 20 ----- text ----- 669.3 -- part contents for background part 21 ----- text ----- +1 -- part contents for background part 16 ----- text ----- (L. caesius, sky blue) Discovered by Bunsen and Kirchhoff in 1860. Found in lepicolite, pollucite ( silicate of aluminum and cesium). The most alkaline and electropositive element. Liquid at room temp., along with mercury and gallium. Cesium hydroxide is the strongest base known. -- part contents for background part 23 ----- text ----- silvery white, soft, ductile, alkali metal, highly reactive, low melting point (melts in your hands and will also burn a hole in them) -- part contents for background part 24 ----- text ----- coating for light sensitive photoelectric cells, ion propulsion systems, catalyst in hydrogenation reactions, used in atomic clocks -- part contents for background part 29 ----- text ----- 0.235 -- part contents for background part 26 ----- text ----- Electron Configuration: 1s 2s 2p 3s 3p 3d 4s 4p 4d 4f 5s 5p 5d 5f 6s 6p 6d 6f 7s 2 2 6 2 6 10 2 6 10 2 6 1