Rubidium, 37 Rb Rubidium Pronunciation (roo-BID -ee-əm ) Appearance grey white Standard atomic weight A r, std (Rb) 85.4678(3)[1] Rubidium in the periodic table
Atomic number (Z ) 37 Group group 1: hydrogen and alkali metals Period period 5 Block s-block Element category s-block Electron configuration [Kr ] 5s1 Electrons per shell 2, 8, 18, 8, 1 Physical properties Phase at STP solid Melting point 312.45 K (39.30 °C, 102.74 °F) Boiling point 961 K (688 °C, 1270 °F) Density (near r.t. ) 1.532 g/cm3 when liquid (at m.p. ) 1.46 g/cm3 Triple point 312.41 K, ? kPa[2] Critical point 2093 K, 16 MPa (extrapolated) [2] Heat of fusion 2.19 kJ/mol Heat of vaporization 69 kJ/mol Molar heat capacity 31.060 J/(mol·K) Vapor pressure
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Atomic properties Oxidation states −1, +1 (a strongly basic oxide) Electronegativity Pauling scale: 0.82 Ionization energies 1st: 403 kJ/mol 2nd: 2632.1 kJ/mol 3rd: 3859.4 kJ/mol Atomic radius empirical: 248 pm Covalent radius 220±9 pm Van der Waals radius 303 pm Spectral lines of rubidiumOther properties Natural occurrence primordial Crystal structure body-centered cubic (bcc) Speed of sound thin rod 1300 m/s (at 20 °C) Thermal expansion 90 µm/(m·K)[3] (at r.t. ) Thermal conductivity 58.2 W/(m·K) Electrical resistivity 128 nΩ·m (at 20 °C) Magnetic ordering paramagnetic [4] Magnetic susceptibility +17.0·10−6 cm3 /mol (303 K)[5] Young's modulus 2.4 GPa Bulk modulus 2.5 GPa Mohs hardness 0.3 Brinell hardness 0.216 MPa CAS Number 7440-17-7 History Discovery Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff (1861) First isolation George de Hevesy Main isotopes of rubidium
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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 .
↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 Haynes, William M., ed (2011). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (92nd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press . p. 4.122. ISBN 1439855110 .
↑ Cverna, Fran (2002). "Ch. 2 Thermal Expansion" . ASM Ready Reference: Thermal properties of metals . ASM International. ISBN 978-0-87170-768-0 . http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~msci301/ThermalExpansion.pdf .
↑ Lide, D. R., ed (2005). "Magnetic susceptibility of the elements and inorganic compounds" . CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (86th ed.). Boca Raton (FL): CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0486-5 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110303222309/http://www-d0.fnal.gov/hardware/cal/lvps_info/engineering/elementmagn.pdf .
↑ Weast, Robert (1984). CRC, Handbook of Chemistry and Physics . Boca Raton, Florida: Chemical Rubber Company Publishing. pp. E110. ISBN 0-8493-0464-4 .
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