francium

See also: Francium

English

Chemical element
Fr
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Next: radium (Ra)

Etymology

From French francium, from France +‎ -ium (after the native country of Marguerite Perey).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹansɪəm/, /ˈfɹɑːnsɪəm/
• enPR: frăn'sēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈfɹænsi.əm/

Noun

francium (usually uncountable, plural franciums)

1. The chemical element (symbol Fr) with an atomic number of 87. It is an intensely radioactive alkali metal that is not found in nature.
   • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, p. 221:

     The most elusive element of all, however, appears to be francium, which is so rare that it is thought that our entire planet may contain, at any given moment, fewer than twenty francium atoms.

2. (countable) A single atom of this element.
   • 1999, Peter J. Krieger, Understanding Chemical Principles: A Learning Companion (page 56)

     Notice that franciums are balanced without even thinking in moles, atoms, or whatever.

   • 2007, Carl J. Gross, ‎Witold Nazarewicz, ‎Krzysztof P. Rykaczewski, The 4th International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses (page 180)

     (a) Radons and poloniums are compared, (b) poloniums and astatines are compared and (c) radons and franciums are compared.

Synonyms

• actinium-K (obsolete)
• virginium (obsolete)

Derived terms

• eka-francium

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: frankium (af)
• Albanian: francium
• Arabic: فَرَنْسِيُوم m (faransiyum)
• Armenian: ֆրանսիում (fransium)
• Asturian: franciu m
• Basque: frantzioa
• Belarusian: фра́нцый m (fráncyj)
• Breton: frañsiom
• Bulgarian: фра́нций m (fráncij)
• Catalan: franci (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 钫 (zh) (fāng), (Taiwan) 鍅 (zh) (fǎ)

• Cornish: frankyum
• Czech: francium (cs) n
• Danish: francium (da)
• Dutch: francium (nl) n
• Esperanto: franciumo (eo)
• Estonian: frantsium (et)
• Faroese: fransium n
• Finnish: frankium (fi)
• French: francium (fr) m
• Friulian: franci
• Galician: francio (gl) m
• Georgian: ფრანციუმი (pranciumi)
• German: Francium (de) n
• Greek: φράγκιο (el) n (frágkio)
• Hebrew: פרנציום (he) (frantsiyum)
• Hindi: क्षुद्रातु (kṣudrātu)
• Hungarian: francium (hu)
• Icelandic: fransín (is)
• Irish: frainciam
• Italian: francio (it) m
• Japanese: フランシウム (ja) (furanshiumu)
• Kashubian: frãs
• Kazakh: франций (kk) (fransii)
• Khmer: ហ្វ្រង់ស្យូម (frɑngsyoum)
• Korean: 프랑슘 (ko) (peurangsyum), 악티늄케이 (aktinyumkei)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

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• Latvian: francijs
• Lithuanian: francis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Francium n
• Macedonian: франциум m (francium)
• Malay: fransium
• Maltese: fransjum
• Manx: frankium
• Moksha: франци (franći)
• Mongolian: франци (franci)
• Norwegian: francium
• Occitan: franci m
• Ossetian: франций (francij)
• Persian: فرانسیم (ferânsiyom)
• Polish: frans (pl) m
• Portuguese: frâncio (pt) m
• Romanian: franciu (ro) n
• Russian: фра́нций (ru) m (fráncij)
• Scottish Gaelic: frainciam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: франциј m, францијум m

  Roman: francij (sh) m, francijum m

• Slovak: francium (sk) n
• Slovene: fráncij (sl)
• Spanish: francio (es) m
• Swahili: fransi
• Swedish: francium (sv)
• Tajik: франсий (fransiy)
• Tamil: வெடியிதள் (veṭiyitaḷ), பிரன்சியம் (piraṉciyam)
• Thai: แฟรนเซียม (frɛn-sîiam)
• Turkish: fransiyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: фра́нцій m (fráncij)
• Uzbek: франций, frantsiy
• Vietnamese: franxi
• Volapük: fransin
• Welsh: ffransiwm
• West Frisian: francium n

References

• Francium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

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Czech

Noun

francium n

1. francium

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Danish

Noun

francium

1. francium

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Dutch

Chemical element
Fr
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Pronunciation

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Noun

francium n (uncountable)

1. francium

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁɑ̃.sjɔm/

Noun

francium m (uncountable)

1. francium

Further reading

• “francium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfran.ki.um/, [ˈfräŋkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfran.t͡ʃi.um/, [ˈfrän̠ʲt͡ʃium]

Noun

francium n (genitive franciī); second declension

1. francium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	francium	francia
Genitive	franciī	franciōrum
Dative	franciō	franciīs
Accusative	francium	francia
Ablative	franciō	franciīs
Vocative	francium	francia

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Slovak

Chemical element
Fr
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Next: rádium (Ra)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrant͡sium/

Noun

francium n (genitive singular francia, declension pattern of mesto)

1. francium (element)

Declension

Declension of francium

	singulare tantum
nominative	francium
genitive	francia
dative	franciu
accusative	francium
locative	franciu
instrumental	franciom

References

• “francium”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024