THORIUM, Th (90)

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THORIUM

Th (90)

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PHONETICS

Thorium is one of only three radioactive elements that occur naturally in large quantities as a primordial element (the other two being bismuth and uranium). As a metal and exposed to air, it is weakly radioactive. All its known isotopes are unstable, with the six naturally occurring ones (thorium-227, 228, 230, 231, 232, and 234) having half-lives between 25.52 hours and 14.05 billion years.

ELEMENT BRIEF

1829 by Jöns Berzelius, Sweden.

DISCOVERY

From the name Thor, the mythological Scandinavian god of war.

ETYMOLOGY

Thorium

ELEMENT

Th

SYMBOL

90

ATOMIC NUMBER

7440-29-1

CAS NUMBER
element

ELEMENTAL SPECTRUM


Silver

ELEMENTAL COLOUR


-

REFRACTIVE INDEX


0.270

POISSON RATIO


19.706 cm³

MOLAR VOLUME


400.00M Pa, 3.947'7k Atm

BRINELL HARDNESS


3.00

MOHS HARDNESS


350.00M Pa, 3.454'2k Atm

VICKERS HARDNESS


2,490 m/s, Mach 7.259'5

SPEED OF SOUND


54.00G Pa, 532.938'6k Atm

BULK MODULUS


31.00G Pa, 305.946'2k Atm

SHEAR MODULUS


79.00G Pa, 779.669'4k Atm

YOUNG MODULUS


ALLOTROPES

element element

2,023.15 K, 1,750.00 °C

MELTING POINT


5,093.15 K, 4,820.00 °C

BOILING POINT


403.15 K, 130.00 °C

AUTOMATIC IGNITION


-

FLASHPOINT


-

CRITICAL TEMPERATURE


-

CRITICAL PRESSURE


54.000'000 W/(m K)

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY


0.000'011'0 K¯¹

THERMAL EXPANSION


118.00 J/(kg K)

SPECIFIC HEAT


16.000 kJ/mol

HEAT FUSION


530.000 kJ/mol

HEAT VAPORISATION


-

HEAT COMBUSTION


-

CURIE POINT


-

NEEL POINT


-

ADIABATIC INDEX


Solid

PHASE

Conductor

ELECTRICAL TYPE


6.70M S/m

CONDUCTIVITY


150.00n Ω.m

RESISTIVITY


1.380 K

SUPERCONDUCTING POINT


-

MAGNETIC TYPE


0.000'000'005'3

MASS SUSCEPTIBILITY


0.000'000'001'230'00

MOLAR SUSCEPTIBILITY


0.000'062'100'00

VOLUME SUSCEPTIBILITY

Actinide

CLASSIFICATION


231.035'595'0

ATOMIC WEIGHT


180 pm

ATOMIC RADIUS


175 pm

COVALENT RADIUS SINGLE BOND


143 pm

COVALENT RADIUS DOUBLE BOND


136 pm

COVALENT RADIUS TRIPLE BOND


237 pm

VAN DER WAALS RADIUS


[Rn]7s²6d²

ELECTRON CONFIGURATION


Cubic, Face-centred

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE


11.724'00 g/cm³

DENSITY AS SOLID


-

DENSITY AS LIQUID


-

DENSITY AS GAS


Fm_3m

SPACE GROUP NAME


225

SPACE GROUP NUMBER


π/2, π/2 π/2

LATTICE ANGLES


508.42, 508.42 508.42 pm

LATTICE CONSTANTS

4

VALENCE


1.3

ELECTRONEGATIVITY


-

ELECTRON AFFINITY


IONISATION ENERGY

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0.000'000'04 %

UNIVERSE


0.000'003'9 %

METEORITES


0.000'000'094 %

SUN


0.000'6 %

EARTH CRUST


0.000'000'000'004 %

OCEANS


-

HUMANS

1.41 x 10¹⁰ Years

HALF LIFE


2.03 x 10¹⁰ Years

LIFETIME


6d² = 6, 2, -1, +1/2

QUANTUM NUMBERS


13.360'00 b σs

NEUTRON CROSS SECTION


7.370'00 b σa

NEUTRON MASS ABSORPTION


STABLE ISOTOPES

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ISOTOPIC CHAIN

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