Caesium, 55 Cs Caesium Pronunciation (SEE -zee-əm ) Alternative name cesium (US, informal) Appearance pale gold Standard atomic weight A r, std (Cs) 132.905451 96 (6)[1] Caesium in the periodic table
Atomic number (Z ) 55 Group group 1: hydrogen and alkali metals Period period 6 Block s-block Element category s-block Electron configuration [Xe ] 6s1 Electrons per shell 2, 8, 18, 18, 8, 1 Physical properties Phase at STP solid Melting point 301.7 K (28.5 °C, 83.3 °F) Boiling point 944 K (671 °C, 1240 °F) Density (near r.t. ) 1.93 g/cm3 when liquid (at m.p. ) 1.843 g/cm3 Critical point 1938 K, 9.4 MPa[2] Heat of fusion 2.09 kJ/mol Heat of vaporization 63.9 kJ/mol Molar heat capacity 32.210 J/(mol·K) Vapor pressure
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Atomic properties Oxidation states −1, +1 [3] (a strongly basic oxide) Electronegativity Pauling scale: 0.79 Ionization energies 1st: 375.7 kJ/mol 2nd: 2234.3 kJ/mol 3rd: 3400 kJ/mol Atomic radius empirical: 265 pm Covalent radius 244±11 pm Van der Waals radius 343 pm Spectral lines of caesiumOther properties Natural occurrence primordial Crystal structure body-centered cubic (bcc) Thermal expansion 97 µm/(m·K) (at 25 °C) Thermal conductivity 35.9 W/(m·K) Electrical resistivity 205 nΩ·m (at 20 °C) Magnetic ordering paramagnetic [4] Young's modulus 1.7 GPa Bulk modulus 1.6 GPa Mohs hardness 0.2 Brinell hardness 0.14 MPa CAS Number 7440-46-2 History Naming from Latin caesius , sky blue, for its spectral colours Discovery Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff (1860) First isolation Carl Setterberg (1882) Main isotopes of caesium
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References
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↑ Meija, Juris; Coplen, Tyler B.; Berglund, Michael; Brand, Willi A.; De Bièvre, Paul; Gröning, Manfred; Holden, Norman E.; Irrgeher, Johanna et al . (2016). "Atomic weights of the elements 2013 (IUPAC Technical Report)". Pure and Applied Chemistry 88 (3): 265–91. doi :10.1515/pac-2015-0305 .
↑ Haynes, William M., ed (2011). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (92nd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press . p. 4.121. ISBN 1439855110 .
↑ Dye, J. L. (1979). "Compounds of Alkali Metal Anions". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 18 (8): 587–598. doi :10.1002/anie.197905871 .
↑ "Magnetic susceptibility of the elements and inorganic compounds" (PDF). Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (87th ed.). CRC press. ISBN 0-8493-0487-3 . http://www-d0.fnal.gov/hardware/cal/lvps_info/engineering/elementmagn.pdf . Retrieved 2010-09-26 .
↑ "NIST Radionuclide Half-Life Measurements" . NIST . http://www.nist.gov/pml/data/halflife.cfm . Retrieved 2011-03-13 .
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