2017-10-09

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Periodic Videos

A new video about Francium.

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Underwater Caesium: /youtube/video/b2YrZNahqiw

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With thanks to Mauricio Gómez for helping research images.

Also thanks to Charles DeSorcy

Good article on Perey in New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/magazine/my-great-great-aunt-discovered-francium-and-it-killed-her.html

Great source for more info is Musée Curie: http://musee.curie.fr/public/acjc

Trapping Francium: http://jqi.umd.edu/news/vive-la-francium

This video features Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff.

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