Element 36 · Gas at room temperature
Krypton
Looks like: colorless gas, exhibiting a whitish glow in a high electric field.
Krypton is atom number 36 — every Krypton atom has exactly 36 protons in its center, and that number is what makes it Krypton and nothing else. Its symbol is Kr. At room temperature it is a gas.
Krypton (from Greek:κρυπτός kryptos "the hidden one") is a chemical element with symbol Kr and atomic number 36. It is a member of group 18 (noble gases) elements. A colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas, krypton occurs in trace amounts in the atmosphere, is isolated by fractionally distilling liquefied air, and is often used with other rare gases in fluorescent lamps.
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Krypton sits in period 4, group 18 of the p-block. Its 36 electrons fill shells of 2, 8, 18, 8 — written as [Ar] 3d10 4s2 4p6. Its electronegativity is 3 on the Pauling scale, and pulling the first electron off takes 1350.8 kJ/mol. The outermost shell holds 8 electrons — the ones that do all the chemistry.
Full configuration: 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s2 3d10 4p6
Ionization energies (kJ/mol): 1350.8, 2350.4, 3565, 5070, 6240, 7570, 10710, 12138 … (30 published)
Electron affinity: -96 kJ/mol · Electronegativity (Pauling):
3
Density: 3.749
g/L · melts 115.78 K · boils 119.93 K
Values exactly as published — see where the data comes from.
Atomic mass
83.7982u
Density
3.749g/L
Melts
115.78 K
Boils
119.93 K
The units on this page — explained by Unitii
Krypton's family
Elements in the same column share their outer-electron count, so they behave alike.
Source
Discovered by William Ramsay.
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