23 V 50.942
Vanadium
transition metal
Properties
- Atomic number
- 23
- Atomic mass
- 50.942 u
- Category
- transition metal
- Group
- 5
- Period
- 4
- Block
- d-block
- State (room temp)
- Solid
- Outer-shell electrons
- 2
- Electronegativity
- 1.63 (Pauling)
- Density
- 6 g/cm³
- Melting point
- 1909.85 °C
- Boiling point
- 3406.85 °C
Electron configuration
1s² 2s² 2p⁶ 3s² 3p⁶ 4s² 3d³
Noble-gas shorthand: [Ar] 3d³ 4s²
Electrons per shell: 2, 8, 11, 2 — that's 2 in the outermost shell.
About Vanadium
Vanadium is a chemical element with symbol V and atomic number 23. It is a hard, silvery grey, ductile and malleable transition metal. The element is found only in chemically combined form in nature, but once isolated artificially, the formation of an oxide layer stabilizes the free metal somewhat against further oxidation.
- Discovered by Andrés Manuel del Río
- Named by Isotopes of vanadium
- Appearance: blue-silver-grey metal
Position in the periodic table
Data compiled from Wikipedia, PubChem, and IUPAC. Source.