April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
5h 20m
English

The front man of the actinoids shoots “alpha bits” for fun,
So thinly spread through pitchblende ore, 150 “migs” per ton.
’Tis made in labs to glow so blue,
And yet, there’s times when Ac’s “TAT” has cancer on the run.
FIRST IN THE ACTINOID SERIES
Actinium is the “front man” of the actinoids,29 the first in a band of 15 radioactive and chemically similar elements found in row 7 on the periodic table. It was discovered in 1899 by French chemist André-Louis Debierne (1874–1949), who, noting the element’s radioactive ...