Element 13 · Solid at room temperature
Aluminium
Looks like: silvery gray metallic.
Aluminium is atom number 13 — every Aluminium atom has exactly 13 protons in its center, and that number is what makes it Aluminium and nothing else. Its symbol is Al. At room temperature it is a solid.
Aluminium (or aluminum; see different endings) is a chemical element in the boron group with symbol Al and atomic number 13. It is a silvery-white, soft, nonmagnetic, ductile metal. Aluminium is the third most abundant element (after oxygen and silicon), and the most abundant metal, in the Earth's crust.
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Aluminium sits in period 3, group 13 of the p-block. Its 13 electrons fill shells of 2, 8, 3 — written as [Ne] 3s2 3p1. Its electronegativity is 1.61 on the Pauling scale, and pulling the first electron off takes 577.5 kJ/mol. The outermost shell holds 3 electrons — the ones that do all the chemistry.
Full configuration: 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p1
Ionization energies (kJ/mol): 577.5, 1816.7, 2744.8, 11577, 14842, 18379, 23326, 27465 … (13 published)
Electron affinity: 41.762 kJ/mol · Electronegativity (Pauling):
1.61
Density: 2.7
g/cm³ · melts 933.47 K · boils 2743 K
Values exactly as published — see where the data comes from.
Atomic mass
26.98153857u
Density
2.7g/cm³
Melts
933.47 K
Boils
2743 K
The units on this page — explained by Unitii
Aluminium's family
Elements in the same column share their outer-electron count, so they behave alike.
Source
Named by Humphry Davy.
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