BARIUM, Ba (56)

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BARIUM

Ba (56)

ˈbɛəriəm

PHONETICS

Barium is a soft silvery metal and due to its high chemical reactivity it is never found in nature as a free element. Its hydroxide was known in pre-modern history as baryta; this substance does not occur as a mineral, but can be prepared by heating barium carbonate.

ELEMENT BRIEF

1808 by Sir Humphrey Davy, England.

DISCOVERY

Greek, 'barys' meaning 'heavy'.

ETYMOLOGY

Barium

ELEMENT

Ba

SYMBOL

56

ATOMIC NUMBER

7440-39-3

CAS NUMBER
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ELEMENTAL SPECTRUM


Silver

ELEMENTAL COLOUR


-

REFRACTIVE INDEX


-

POISSON RATIO


38.920 cm³

MOLAR VOLUME


-

BRINELL HARDNESS


1.25

MOHS HARDNESS


-

VICKERS HARDNESS


1,620 m/s, Mach 4.723'0

SPEED OF SOUND


9.60G Pa, 94.744'6k Atm

BULK MODULUS


4.90G Pa, 48.359'2k Atm

SHEAR MODULUS


13.00G Pa, 128.300'0k Atm

YOUNG MODULUS


ALLOTROPES

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1,000.15 K, 727.00 °C

MELTING POINT


2,143.15 K, 1,870.00 °C

BOILING POINT


-

AUTOMATIC IGNITION


-

FLASHPOINT


-

CRITICAL TEMPERATURE


-

CRITICAL PRESSURE


18.000'000 W/(m K)

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY


0.000'020'6 K¯¹

THERMAL EXPANSION


205.00 J/(kg K)

SPECIFIC HEAT


8.000 kJ/mol

HEAT FUSION


140.000 kJ/mol

HEAT VAPORISATION


-

HEAT COMBUSTION


-

CURIE POINT


-

NEEL POINT


-

ADIABATIC INDEX


Solid

PHASE

Conductor

ELECTRICAL TYPE


2.90M S/m

CONDUCTIVITY


350.00n Ω.m

RESISTIVITY


-

SUPERCONDUCTING POINT


Paramagnetic

MAGNETIC TYPE


0.000'000'011'3

MASS SUSCEPTIBILITY


0.000'000'001'552'00

MOLAR SUSCEPTIBILITY


0.000'039'660'00

VOLUME SUSCEPTIBILITY

Alkaline Earth

CLASSIFICATION


136.610'327'8

ATOMIC WEIGHT


253 pm

ATOMIC RADIUS


196 pm

COVALENT RADIUS SINGLE BOND


161 pm

COVALENT RADIUS DOUBLE BOND


149 pm

COVALENT RADIUS TRIPLE BOND


268 pm

VAN DER WAALS RADIUS


[Xe]6s²

ELECTRON CONFIGURATION


Cubic, Body-centred

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE


3.510'00 g/cm³

DENSITY AS SOLID


3.338'00 g/cm³

DENSITY AS LIQUID


-

DENSITY AS GAS


lm_3m

SPACE GROUP NAME


229

SPACE GROUP NUMBER


π/2, π/2 π/2

LATTICE ANGLES


502.8, 502.8 502.8 pm

LATTICE CONSTANTS

2

VALENCE


0.89

ELECTRONEGATIVITY


13.95 kJ/mol

ELECTRON AFFINITY


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0.000'001 %

UNIVERSE


0.000'27 %

METEORITES


0.000'001 %

SUN


0.034 %

EARTH CRUST


0.000'007 %

OCEANS


0.000'03 %

HUMANS

Stable

HALF LIFE


Stable

LIFETIME


6s² = 6, 0, 0, -1/2

QUANTUM NUMBERS


3.380'00 b σs

NEUTRON CROSS SECTION


1.100'00 b σa

NEUTRON MASS ABSORPTION


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ISOTOPIC CHAIN

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