Element 99 · Solid at room temperature
Einsteinium
Looks like: silver-colored.
Einsteinium is atom number 99 — every Einsteinium atom has exactly 99 protons in its center, and that number is what makes it Einsteinium and nothing else. Its symbol is Es. At room temperature it is a solid.
Einsteinium is a synthetic element with symbol Es and atomic number 99. It is the seventh transuranic element, and an actinide. Einsteinium was discovered as a component of the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952, and named after Albert Einstein.
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Einsteinium sits in period 7, group 3 of the f-block. Its 99 electrons fill shells of 2, 8, 18, 32, 29, 8, 2 — written as [Rn] 5f11 7s2. Its electronegativity is 1.3 on the Pauling scale, and pulling the first electron off takes 619 kJ/mol. The outermost shell holds 2 electrons — the ones that do all the chemistry.
Full configuration: 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s2 3d10 4p6 5s2 4d10 5p6 6s2 4f14 5d10 6p6 7s2 5f11
Ionization energies (kJ/mol): 619
Electron affinity: -28.6 kJ/mol · Electronegativity (Pauling):
1.3
Density: 8.84
g/cm³ · melts 1133 K · boils 1269 K
Values exactly as published — see where the data comes from.
Atomic mass
252u
Density
8.84g/cm³
Melts
1133 K
Boils
1269 K
The units on this page — explained by Unitii
Einsteinium's family
Elements in the same series — near-identical chemistry, which is why they share a row.
Source
Discovered by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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