ACTINIUM

FACTS ABOUT IT

• Color: silvery-white
• Melting point: 1924*F
• Boiling point: 5788*F

Discovery:
Actinium has two independent discoverers: Andre debierne, who found it in 1899,and F.Giesel, who discovered it in 1902

"FUN" FACTS

• Actinium is about 150 times as radioactive as radium
• It glows blue in the dark.
• There has even been some work done to use 225 ac in treating cancer.