LUTETIUM, Lu (71)

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LUTETIUM

Lu (71)

ljuˈtiːʃiəm

PHONETICS

Lutetium is a silvery white metal, which resists corrosion in dry, but not in moist air. Lutetium is not a particularly abundant element, though significantly more common than silver in the earth’s crust; it has few specific uses. Lutetium-176 is a relatively abundant (2.5%) radioactive isotope with a half-life of about 38 billion years, and so used to determine the age of meteorites.

ELEMENT BRIEF

1907 by Georges Urbain and Carl Auer von Welsbach, France.

DISCOVERY

Greek 'Lutetia' meaning 'Paris'.

ETYMOLOGY

Lutetium

ELEMENT

Lu

SYMBOL

71

ATOMIC NUMBER

7439-94-3

CAS NUMBER
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ELEMENTAL SPECTRUM


Silver

ELEMENTAL COLOUR


-

REFRACTIVE INDEX


0.260

POISSON RATIO


17.779 cm³

MOLAR VOLUME


893.00M Pa, 8.813'2k Atm

BRINELL HARDNESS


2.60

MOHS HARDNESS


1.16G Pa, 11.448'3k Atm

VICKERS HARDNESS


-

SPEED OF SOUND


48.00G Pa, 473.723'2k Atm

BULK MODULUS


27.00G Pa, 266.469'3k Atm

SHEAR MODULUS


69.00G Pa, 680.977'1k Atm

YOUNG MODULUS


ALLOTROPES

NONE

1,936.15 K, 1,663.00 °C

MELTING POINT


3,675.15 K, 3,402.00 °C

BOILING POINT


-

AUTOMATIC IGNITION


-

FLASHPOINT


-

CRITICAL TEMPERATURE


-

CRITICAL PRESSURE


16.000'000 W/(m K)

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY


0.000'009'9 K¯¹

THERMAL EXPANSION


154.00 J/(kg K)

SPECIFIC HEAT


22.000 kJ/mol

HEAT FUSION


415.000 kJ/mol

HEAT VAPORISATION


-

HEAT COMBUSTION


-

CURIE POINT


-

NEEL POINT


-

ADIABATIC INDEX


Solid

PHASE

Conductor

ELECTRICAL TYPE


1.80M S/m

CONDUCTIVITY


560.00n Ω.m

RESISTIVITY


0.100 K

SUPERCONDUCTING POINT


-

MAGNETIC TYPE


0.000'000'001'2

MASS SUSCEPTIBILITY


0.000'000'000'210'00

MOLAR SUSCEPTIBILITY


0.000'011'800'00

VOLUME SUSCEPTIBILITY

Lanthanide

CLASSIFICATION


174.966'721'4

ATOMIC WEIGHT


208 pm

ATOMIC RADIUS


162 pm

COVALENT RADIUS SINGLE BOND


131 pm

COVALENT RADIUS DOUBLE BOND


131 pm

COVALENT RADIUS TRIPLE BOND


221 pm

VAN DER WAALS RADIUS


[Xe]6s²4f¹⁴5d¹

ELECTRON CONFIGURATION


Hexagonal, Close Packed Single

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE


9.841'00 g/cm³

DENSITY AS SOLID


9.300'00 g/cm³

DENSITY AS LIQUID


-

DENSITY AS GAS


P6₃/mmc

SPACE GROUP NAME


194

SPACE GROUP NUMBER


π/2, π/2 2π/3

LATTICE ANGLES


350.31, 350.31 555.09 pm

LATTICE CONSTANTS

3

VALENCE


1.27

ELECTRONEGATIVITY


33.38 kJ/mol

ELECTRON AFFINITY


IONISATION ENERGY

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0.000'000'01 %

UNIVERSE


0.000'002'9 %

METEORITES


0.000'000'1 %

SUN


0.000'08 %

EARTH CRUST


0.000'000'000'02 %

OCEANS


-

HUMANS

Stable

HALF LIFE


Stable

LIFETIME


5s¹ = 5, 2, -2, +1/2

QUANTUM NUMBERS


7.200'00 b σs

NEUTRON CROSS SECTION


74.000'00 b σa

NEUTRON MASS ABSORPTION


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