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There are only about twenty to thirty grams of francium in the Earth's crust at any given time.

Why it is true

Francium is extremely unstable and decays rapidly into other elements. It is continuously produced by the decay of actinium, but its total amount on Earth remains tiny.

Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory

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