Element 94 · Solid at room temperature
Plutonium
Looks like: silvery white, tarnishing to dark gray in air.
Plutonium is atom number 94 — every Plutonium atom has exactly 94 protons in its center, and that number is what makes it Plutonium and nothing else. Its symbol is Pu. At room temperature it is a solid.
Plutonium is a transuranic radioactive chemical element with symbol Pu and atomic number 94. It is an actinide metal of silvery-gray appearance that tarnishes when exposed to air, and forms a dull coating when oxidized. The element normally exhibits six allotropes and four oxidation states.
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Plutonium sits in period 7, group 3 of the f-block. Its 94 electrons fill shells of 2, 8, 18, 32, 24, 8, 2 — written as [Rn] 5f6 7s2. Its electronegativity is 1.28 on the Pauling scale, and pulling the first electron off takes 584.7 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 5f6
Ionization energies (kJ/mol): 584.7
Electron affinity: -48.33 kJ/mol · Electronegativity (Pauling):
1.28
Density: 19.816
g/cm³ · melts 912.5 K · boils 3505 K
Values exactly as published — see where the data comes from.
Atomic mass
244u
Density
19.816g/cm³
Melts
912.5 K
Boils
3505 K
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Plutonium's family
Elements in the same series — near-identical chemistry, which is why they share a row.
Source
Discovered by Glenn T. Seaborg.
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