Cesium, or caesium, is an alkali metal on the periodic table with the atomic number 55. It is highly reactive and pyrophoric, meaning that the mere oxygen in the atmosphere is sufficient to make it go ...

Eric Ansoborlo and Richard Wayne Leggett discuss the chemical and radiological characteristics that make caesium a captivating element but also a troublesome contaminant. The fifty-fifth element in ...

Cesium is a rare, silver-white, shiny metal with brilliant blue spectral lines; the element's name comes from "caesius," a Latin word meaning "sky blue." It is the softest metal, with a consistency of ...

Caesium (Cs) metal resembles rubidium and potassium. It is silvery white in appearance and is very soft and ductile. It is the most electropositive and most alkaline element. It oxidises easily in the ...

You could slice through the world's softest metal with a plastic spoon, but you probably wouldn't keep your hand. Cesium looks like warm gold, feels like candle wax, and reacts like a grenade. At room ...

You’ve given some thought to oxygen, carbon, uranium. But you’ve probably never mused about the element ytterbium, symbol Yb. A new study by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and ...

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