39 Y Yttrium 88.906
Transition metal
Yttrium 钇
[Kr] 4d¹ 5s²
- Period 5
- Group 3
- Block d
- Solid
Electron configuration
1s² 2s² 2p⁶ 3s² 3p⁶ 3d¹⁰ 4s² 4p⁶ 4d¹ 5s²
Orbital diagram (valence)
- Electrons per shell
- 2, 8, 18, 9, 2
- Unpaired electrons
- 1
- Zeff (Slater)
- 3.00
Properties
- Atomic weight
- 88.906
- Electronegativity (Pauling)
- 1.22
- First ionization energy
- 599.8 kJ/mol
- Electron affinity
- 29.62 kJ/mol
- Covalent radius
- 190 pm
- van der Waals radius
- 219 pm
- Melting point
- 1795 K
- Boiling point
- 3618 K
- Density
- 4.47 g/cm³
- Melting / boiling point
- 1521.8 °C / 3344.8 °C
- Common oxidation states
- +3
- Discovered
- 1794
Yttrium 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).