Her analysis of the data revealed a new element with a half-life of 21 minutes. When she was later asked to name the element she chose 'francium' to honour the country of her birth 2. It was also ...

The Gibbs energy of partitioning of Fr + ion between water and nitrobenzene has been determined to be 14.5 ± 0.6 kJ/mol at 25 °C, the first ever Gibbs energy of partitioning for francium in particular ...