Template:Infobox plutonium

Plutonium, 94Pu
Two shiny pellets of plutonium of about 3 cm in diameter
Plutonium
Pronunciation/plˈtniəm/ (ploo-TOH-nee-əm)
Allotropessee Allotropes of plutonium
Appearancesilvery white, tarnishing to dark gray in air
Mass number[244]
Plutonium in the periodic table
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Sm

Pu

(Uqo)
neptuniumplutoniumamericium
Atomic number (Z)94
Groupf-block groups (no number)
Periodperiod 7
Block  f-block
Electron configuration[Rn] 5f6 7s2
Electrons per shell2, 8, 18, 32, 24, 8, 2
Physical properties
Phase at STPsolid
Melting point912.5 K ​(639.4 °C, ​1182.9 °F)
Boiling point3505 K ​(3228 °C, ​5842 °F)
Density (near r.t.)19.85 g/cm3 (239Pu)[1]
when liquid (at m.p.)16.63 g/cm3
Heat of fusion2.82 kJ/mol
Heat of vaporization333.5 kJ/mol
Molar heat capacity35.5 J/(mol·K)
Vapor pressure
P (Pa) 1 10 100 1 k 10 k 100 k
at T (K) 1756 1953 2198 2511 2926 3499
Atomic properties
Oxidation states+2, +3, +4, +5, +6, +7, +8 (an amphoteric oxide)
ElectronegativityPauling scale: 1.28
Ionization energies
  • 1st: 584.7 kJ/mol
Atomic radiusempirical: 159 pm
Covalent radius187±1 pm
Color lines in a spectral range
Spectral lines of plutonium
Other properties
Natural occurrencefrom decay
Crystal structuremonoclinic
Monoclinic crystal structure for plutonium
Speed of sound2260 m/s
Thermal expansion46.7 µm/(m⋅K) (at 25 °C)
Thermal conductivity6.74 W/(m⋅K)
Electrical resistivity1.460 µΩ⋅m (at 0 °C)
Magnetic orderingparamagnetic
Young's modulus96 GPa
Shear modulus43 GPa
Poisson ratio0.21
CAS Number7440-07-5
History
Namingafter dwarf planet Pluto, itself named after classical god of the underworld Pluto
DiscoveryGlenn T. Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph W. Kennedy, Edwin McMillan (1940–1941)
Isotopes of plutonium
Main isotopes[2] Decay
abun­dance half-life (t1/2) mode pro­duct
238Pu trace 87.7 y[3] α 234U
SF
239Pu trace 2.411×104 y α 235U
SF
240Pu trace 6.561×103 y α 236U
SF
241Pu synth 14.329 y β 241Am
α 237U
SF
242Pu synth 3.75×105 y α 238U
SF
244Pu trace 81.3×106 y α 240U
SF
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  most stable isotope
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See also {{Index of data sets}} · Cat:data sets (11) · (this table: )

References

  1. Calculated from the atomic weight and the atomic volume. The unit cell, containing 16 atoms, has a volume of 319.96 cubic Å, according to Siegfried S. Hecker (2000). "Plutonium and its alloys: from atoms to microstructure" (PDF). Los Alamos Science. 26: 331.. This gives a density for 239Pu of (1.66053906660×10−24g/dalton×239.0521634 daltons/atom×16 atoms/unit cell)/(319.96 Å3/unit cell × 10−24cc/Å3) or 19.85 g/cc.
  2. Kondev, F. G.; Wang, M.; Huang, W. J.; Naimi, S.; Audi, G. (2021). "The NUBASE2020 evaluation of nuclear properties" (PDF). Chinese Physics C. 45 (3): 030001. doi:10.1088/1674-1137/abddae.
  3. Magurno & Pearlstein 1981, pp. 835 ff.