(France) Discovered in 1939 by Marguerite Perey of the Curie Institute in Paris, France. Found in uranium minerals, and can be made artificially by bombarding thorium with protons.
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alkali metal, radioactive, highly unstable, 20 isotopes, the longest lived isotope is Fr-223 with a half-life of 22 minutes