44 Ru Ruthenium 101.07
Transition metal
Ruthenium 钌
[Kr] 4d⁷ 5s¹
- Period 5
- Group 8
- Block d
- Solid
Electron configuration
1s² 2s² 2p⁶ 3s² 3p⁶ 3d¹⁰ 4s² 4p⁶ 4d⁷ 5s¹
Orbital diagram (valence)
- Electrons per shell
- 2, 8, 18, 15, 1
- Unpaired electrons
- 4
- Zeff (Slater)
- 3.25
Properties
- Atomic weight
- 101.07
- Electronegativity (Pauling)
- 2.2
- First ionization energy
- 710.2 kJ/mol
- Electron affinity
- 101.3 kJ/mol
- Covalent radius
- 146 pm
- van der Waals radius
- 207 pm
- Melting point
- 2607 K
- Boiling point
- 4423 K
- Density
- 12.1 g/cm³
- Melting / boiling point
- 2333.8 °C / 4149.9 °C
- Common oxidation states
- +3
- Discovered
- 1827
Periodic trend
Data: PubChem periodic table (public domain); atomic weights are IUPAC abridged standard values; covalent radii from Cordero et al. (2008).