Element 59 · Solid at room temperature
Praseodymium
Looks like: grayish white.
Praseodymium is atom number 59 — every Praseodymium atom has exactly 59 protons in its center, and that number is what makes it Praseodymium and nothing else. Its symbol is Pr. At room temperature it is a solid.
Praseodymium is a chemical element with symbol Pr and atomic number 59. Praseodymium is a soft, silvery, malleable and ductile metal in the lanthanide group. It is valued for its magnetic, electrical, chemical, and optical properties.
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Praseodymium sits in period 6, group 3 of the f-block. Its 59 electrons fill shells of 2, 8, 18, 21, 8, 2 — written as [Xe] 4f3 6s2. Its electronegativity is 1.13 on the Pauling scale, and pulling the first electron off takes 527 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 4f3
Ionization energies (kJ/mol): 527, 1020, 2086, 3761, 5551
Electron affinity: 93 kJ/mol · Electronegativity (Pauling):
1.13
Density: 6.77
g/cm³ · melts 1208 K · boils 3403 K
Values exactly as published — see where the data comes from.
Atomic mass
140.907662u
Density
6.77g/cm³
Melts
1208 K
Boils
3403 K
The units on this page — explained by Unitii
Praseodymium's family
Elements in the same series — near-identical chemistry, which is why they share a row.
Source
Discovered by Carl Auer von Welsbach.
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