54 Xe Xenon 131.29
Noble gas
Xenon 氙
[Kr] 4d¹⁰ 5s² 5p⁶
- Period 5
- Group 18
- Block p
- Gas
Electron configuration
1s² 2s² 2p⁶ 3s² 3p⁶ 3d¹⁰ 4s² 4p⁶ 4d¹⁰ 5s² 5p⁶
Orbital diagram (valence)
- Electrons per shell
- 2, 8, 18, 18, 8
- Unpaired electrons
- 0
- Zeff (Slater)
- 8.25
Properties
- Atomic weight
- 131.29
- Electronegativity (Pauling)
- 2.6
- First ionization energy
- 1170 kJ/mol
- Electron affinity
- no data
- Covalent radius
- 140 pm
- van der Waals radius
- 216 pm
- Melting point
- 161.4 K
- Boiling point
- 165 K
- Density
- 0.005887 g/cm³
- Melting / boiling point
- −111.8 °C / −108.1 °C
- Common oxidation states
- 0
- Discovered
- 1898
Xenon 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).