63 Eu Europium 151.96
Lanthanide
Europium 铕
[Xe] 4f⁷ 6s²
- Period 6
- Group —
- Block f
- Solid
Electron configuration
1s² 2s² 2p⁶ 3s² 3p⁶ 3d¹⁰ 4s² 4p⁶ 4d¹⁰ 4f⁷ 5s² 5p⁶ 6s²
Orbital diagram (valence)
- Electrons per shell
- 2, 8, 18, 25, 8, 2
- Unpaired electrons
- 7
- Zeff (Slater)
- 2.85
Properties
- Atomic weight
- 151.96
- Electronegativity (Pauling)
- no data
- First ionization energy
- 547.1 kJ/mol
- Electron affinity
- no data
- Covalent radius
- 198 pm
- van der Waals radius
- 233 pm
- Melting point
- 1095 K
- Boiling point
- 1802 K
- Density
- 5.24 g/cm³
- Melting / boiling point
- 821.9 °C / 1528.8 °C
- Common oxidation states
- +3, +2
- Discovered
- 1901
Europium in the course
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Periodic trend
Data: PubChem periodic table (public domain); atomic weights are IUPAC abridged standard values; covalent radii from Cordero et al. (2008).