21 Sc Scandium 44.956
Transition metal
Scandium 钪
[Ar] 3d¹ 4s²
- Period 4
- Group 3
- Block d
- Solid
Electron configuration
1s² 2s² 2p⁶ 3s² 3p⁶ 3d¹ 4s²
Orbital diagram (valence)
- Electrons per shell
- 2, 8, 9, 2
- Unpaired electrons
- 1
- Zeff (Slater)
- 3.00
Properties
- Atomic weight
- 44.956
- Electronegativity (Pauling)
- 1.36
- First ionization energy
- 633 kJ/mol
- Electron affinity
- 18.14 kJ/mol
- Covalent radius
- 170 pm
- van der Waals radius
- 211 pm
- Melting point
- 1814 K
- Boiling point
- 3109 K
- Density
- 2.99 g/cm³
- Melting / boiling point
- 1540.8 °C / 2835.8 °C
- Common oxidation states
- +3
- Discovered
- 1879
Scandium 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).