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Why scientists can barely gather francium

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Attempting to study this substance requires essentially chasing a ghost. Francium is incredibly massive but violently unstable, aggressively degrading into completely different elements mere minutes after forming. It completely evades standard observation because gathering enough of it to physically see would immediately generate an explosive, intensely radioactive puddle of complete chemical chaos.

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