Element 74 · Solid at room temperature
Tungsten
Looks like: grayish white, lustrous.
Tungsten is atom number 74 — every Tungsten atom has exactly 74 protons in its center, and that number is what makes it Tungsten and nothing else. Its symbol is W. At room temperature it is a solid.
Tungsten, also known as wolfram, is a chemical element with symbol W and atomic number 74. The word tungsten comes from the Swedish language tung sten, which directly translates to heavy stone. Its name in Swedish is volfram, however, in order to distinguish it from scheelite, which in Swedish is alternatively named tungsten.
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Tungsten sits in period 6, group 6 of the d-block. Its 74 electrons fill shells of 2, 8, 18, 32, 12, 2 — written as [Xe] 4f14 5d4 6s2. Its electronegativity is 2.36 on the Pauling scale, and pulling the first electron off takes 770 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 5d4
Ionization energies (kJ/mol): 770, 1700
Electron affinity: 78.76 kJ/mol · Electronegativity (Pauling):
2.36
Density: 19.25
g/cm³ · melts 3695 K · boils 6203 K
Values exactly as published — see where the data comes from.
Atomic mass
183.841u
Density
19.25g/cm³
Melts
3695 K
Boils
6203 K
The units on this page — explained by Unitii
Tungsten's family
Elements in the same column share their outer-electron count, so they behave alike.
Source
Discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
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