ఆవర్తన పట్టిక
"ఆవర్తన పట్టిక" అనునది రసాయన మూలకాలను వాటి పరమాణు సంఖ్యలు, ఎలక్ట్రాన్ విన్యాసములు మరియు ఆవర్తన రసాయన ధర్మముల ఆధారంగా యేర్పాటు చేయబడిన ఒక అమరిక. ఈ పట్టికలో మూలకాలు వాటి పరమాణు సంఖ్య(పరమాణు కేంద్రకంలో గల న్యూట్రాన్ల సంఖ్య) యొక్క ఆరోహణ క్రమంలో అమర్చబడినవి. ఈ పట్టికలో ప్రామాణీకరించబడిన ప్రకారం 18 నిలువు వరుసలు మరియు 7 అడ్డు వరుసలు గానూ, పట్టిక క్రింది భాగంలో రెండు ప్రత్యేక వరుసలు అమర్చబడినవి. ఈ పట్టికను నాలుగు బ్లాకులుగా విభజింపవచ్చు. వాటిలో s-బ్లాకు మూలకాలు ఎడమ వైపు, p-బ్లాకు మూలకాలు కుడి వైపున, d-బ్లాకు మూలకాలు పట్టిక మధ్య భాగం లోనూ, f-బ్లాకు మూలకాలు పట్టిక దిగువ భాగంలోనూ అమర్చబడి ఉన్నాయి.
ఆవర్తన పట్టికలో అడ్డు వరుసలను పీరియడ్లు అనుయు, నిలువు వరుసలను గ్రూపులు అనియు వ్యవహరిస్తారు. ఈ గ్రూపులలో కొన్నింటికి హలోజనులు లేదా జడ వాయువులు వంటి పేర్లతో పిలుస్తారు. నిర్వచనం ప్రకారం ఆవర్తన ధర్మాలను కలిగియుండినప్పటికీ ఆ పట్టిక మూలకాల యొక్క ధర్మములను మరియు క్రొత్తగా వచ్చిన, ఇంకా కనుగొనబడని మూలకాల యొక్క ధర్మముల మధ్య సంబంధములను వివరించుటకు కూడా ఉపయోగపడుతుంది. ఫలితంగా, ఒక ఆవర్తన పట్టిక- ప్రామాణిక రూపం లేదా కొన్ని ఇతర రసాయన ప్రవర్తనను విశ్లేషించడం కోసం ఉపయోగకరమైన ముసాయిదా రూపాంతరం-అందిస్తుంది, మరియు పట్టికలు విస్తృతంగా రసాయన శాస్త్రం మరియు ఇతర శాస్త్రాల్లో ఉపయోగిస్తారు.
పూర్వగాములు ఉన్నప్పటికీ మెండలీఫ్ 1869 లో మొదటి సారి ఆవర్తన పట్టికను ప్రచురణ చేసిన వ్యక్తిగా గుర్తింబడ్డాడు. ఆయన అప్పటికి తెలిసిన మూలకాలను వాటి ధర్మాల ఆధారంగా (పరమాణు భారం) వర్గీకరణను అభివృద్ధిపరచాడు. మెండలీఫ్ కూడా కొన్ని కనుగొనబడని మూలకాలను ఊహించి వాటికి కూడా కొన్ని ఖాళీలను పట్టికలో ఉంచి వాటికి స్థానం కల్పించాడు. ఆయన ఊహించిన మూలాకాలలో చాలా మూలకాలను తదుపరి కాలంలో కనుగొని వాటికి సూచించిన ఖాళీలలో అమర్చారు. తర్వాతి కాలంలో మరికొన్ని మూలకాలను కనుగొన్న తదుపరి మెండలీఫ్ ఆవర్తన పట్టికను విస్తృతపరచారు. తర్వాత తయారుచేయబడిన ఆవర్తన పట్టికలో మూలకాల రసాయన ధర్మాల ఆధారంగా సిద్దాంతీకరించారు.
పరమణు సంఖ్య 1 (హైడ్రోజన్ నుండి 118 (అననోక్టియం) వరకు గల అన్ని మూలకాలలో కొన్ని కనుగొనబడినవి మరికొన్ని కృత్రిమంగా తయారుచేయబడినవి. పరమాణు సంఖ్యలు 113,115,117 మరియు 118 గా గల మూలకాలు యిప్పటికీ నిర్ధారింపబడలేదు. ఆవర్తన పట్టికలో మొదటి 98 మూలకాలు ప్రకృతిలో సహజంగా గలవి. మరికొన్ని మూలకాలు [n 1] వాటిలో కొన్ని మూలకాలు ప్రయోగశాలలో కృత్రిమంగా కనుగొనబడినవి. పరమాణు సంఖ్యలు 99 నుండి 118 వరకు గల మూలకాలను కృత్రిమంగా సృష్టించారు.అధిక పరమాణు సంఖ్యలు కలిగిన మూలకాలు ఉత్పత్తి ఆవర్తన పట్టికలో కొనసాగుతున్న చర్చనీయాంశంగానే ఉండటం అటువంటి చేర్పులు స్థానం కల్పించే మార్పు అవసరం అనేది ప్రశ్నార్థకంగా మారింది. అనేక కృత్రిమ రేడియోన్యూక్లైడ్ సహజంగా మూలకాలులు కూడా ప్రయోగశాలల్లో ఉత్పత్తి చేయబడ్డాయి.
పూర్తి వివరాలతో కూడిన ఆవర్తన పట్టిక కోసం చూడండి విస్తృత ఆవర్తన పట్టిక
Group123456789101112131415161718Alkali metalsAlkaline earth metalsPnictogensChalcogensHalogensNoble gasesPeriod 1Hydrogen1H​1.008Helium2He​4.00262Lithium3Li​6.94Beryllium4Be​9.0122Boron5B​10.81Carbon6C​12.011Nitrogen7N​14.007Oxygen8O​15.999Fluorine9F​18.998Neon10Ne​20.1803Sodium11Na​22.990Magnesium12Mg​24.305Aluminium13Al​26.982Silicon14Si​28.085Phosphorus15P​30.974Sulfur16S​32.06Chlorine17Cl​35.45Argon18Ar​39.9484Potassium19K​39.098Calcium20Ca​40.078Scandium21Sc​44.956Titanium22Ti​47.867Vanadium23V​50.942Chromium24Cr​51.996Manganese25Mn​54.938Iron26Fe​55.845Cobalt27Co​58.933Nickel28Ni​58.693Copper29Cu​63.546Zinc30Zn​65.38Gallium31Ga​69.723Germanium32Ge​72.630Arsenic33As​74.922Selenium34Se​78.971Bromine35Br ​79.904Krypton36Kr​83.7985Rubidium37Rb​85.468Strontium38Sr​87.62Yttrium39Y​88.906Zirconium40Zr​91.224Niobium41Nb​92.906Molybdenum42Mo​95.95Technetium43Tc​[97]Ruthenium44Ru​101.07Rhodium45Rh​102.91Palladium46Pd​106.42Silver47Ag​107.87Cadmium48Cd​112.41Indium49In​114.82Tin50Sn​118.71Antimony51Sb​121.76Tellurium52Te​127.60Iodine53I​126.90Xenon54Xe​131.296Caesium55Cs​132.91Barium56Ba​137.33Lanthanum57La​138.91Hafnium72Hf​178.49Tantalum73Ta​180.95Tungsten74W​183.84Rhenium75Re​186.21Osmium76Os​190.23Iridium77Ir​192.22Platinum78Pt​195.08Gold79Au​196.97Mercury80Hg​200.59Thallium81Tl​204.38Lead82Pb​207.2Bismuth83Bi​208.98Polonium84Po​[209]Astatine85At​[210]Radon86Rn​[222]7Francium87Fr​[223]Radium88Ra​[226]Actinium89Ac​[227]Rutherfordium104Rf​[267]Dubnium105Db​[268]Seaborgium106Sg​[269]Bohrium107Bh​[270]Hassium108Hs​[270]Meitnerium109Mt​[278]Darmstadtium110Ds​[281]Roentgenium111Rg​[282]Copernicium112Cn​[285]Nihonium113Nh​[286]Flerovium114Fl​[289]Moscovium115Mc​[290]Livermorium116Lv​[293]Tennessine117Ts​[294]Oganesson118Og​[294]Cerium58Ce​140.12Praseodymium59Pr​140.91Neodymium60Nd​144.24Promethium61Pm​[145]Samarium62Sm​150.36Europium63Eu​151.96Gadolinium64Gd​157.25Terbium65Tb​158.93Dysprosium66Dy​162.50Holmium67Ho​164.93Erbium68Er​167.26Thulium69Tm​168.93Ytterbium70Yb​173.05Lutetium71Lu​174.97Thorium90Th​232.04Protactinium91Pa​231.04Uranium92U​238.03Neptunium93Np​[237]Plutonium94Pu​[244]Americium95Am​[243]Curium96Cm​[247]Berkelium97Bk​[247]Californium98Cf​[251]Einsteinium99Es​[252]Fermium100Fm​[257]Mendelevium101Md​[258]Nobelium102No​[259]Lawrencium103Lr​[266]
1(red)=Gas3(black)=Solid80(green)=Liquid109(gray)=UnknownColor of the atomic number shows state of matter (at 0°C and 1atm)
Ca:40.078 — Formal short value, rounded (no uncertainty)[2] Po:[209] — mass number of the most stable isotope
Background color shows subcategory in the metal–metalloid–nonmetal trend:
MetalMetalloidNonmetalUnknown chemical propertiesAlkali metalAlkaline earth metalLanthanideActinideTransition metalPost-​transition metalReactive nonmetalNoble gas
ఆవర్తన పట్టిక యొక్క అన్ని రూపాలలో మిశ్రమాలు, సంయోగ పదార్థాలు, ఉప పరమాణు కణాలును కాకుండా రసాయన మూలకాలు మాత్రమే ఉంటాయి [n 2] ప్రతి రసాయన మూలకం ఏకైక పరమాణు సంఖ్యను లేదా పరమాణు కేంద్రకంలోని ప్రోటాన్ల సంఖ్యను కలిగి ఉంటుంది. అనేక మూలకాలు న్యూట్రాన్ల సంఖ్యలు వివిధ రకాలుగా కలిగి ఉంటాయి. ఒకే మూలకంలో న్యూట్రాన్ల సఖ్యలో తేడాలు కలిగిఉంటే వాటిని ఐసోటోపులు అంటారు. ఉదాహరణకు కార్బన్ పరమాణువు సహజంగా మూడు ఐసోటోపులు కలిగి ఉంటుంది. అన్ని కార్బన్ పరమాణువులు ఆరు ప్రోటాన్లను కలిగి ఉంటాయి. కానీ ఒక శాతం పరమాణువులలో ఏడు న్యూట్రాన్లను కలిగి ఉంటుంది. కానీ చాలా కొన్ని భాగం పరమాణువులు ఏడు న్యూట్రాన్లను కలిగి ఉంటాయి. ఐసోటోపులు ఆవర్తన పట్టికలో విడదీయలేము. అన్ని ఐసోటోపులు ఒకే ప్రోటాన్ల సంఖ్యను కలిగి ఉండుట వలన ఒకే మూలకంగా గుర్తింపబడుతుంది.[3]
ప్రామాణీక ఆవర్తనపట్టికలో మూలకాలు వాటి పరమాణు సంఖ్యల ఆరోహణ క్రమంలో అమరియుంటాయి. ప్రతి అడ్డువరుస (పీరియడ్ క్రొత్త కర్పరం (కక్ష్య) లో కొత్త ఎలక్ట్రాన్ చేరుటతో ప్రారంభమైనది. ప్రతి నిలువు వరుస (గ్రూపు లలో మూలకాలు వాటి ఎలక్ట్రాన్ విన్యాసము ఆధారంగా అమర్చబడి ఉంటాయి. బాహ్య కక్ష్యలో ఒకే సంఖ్యలో ఎలక్ట్రాన్లు గల మూలకాలన్నీ ఒకే గ్రూపులో అమరి ఉంటాయి (ఉదా: ఆక్సిజన్, మరియు సెలేనియం మూలకాలు వాటి బాహ్యకక్ష్యలో నాలుగు ఎలక్ట్రాన్లు కలిగి ఉంటాయి. అందువల్ల అవి ఒకే గ్రూపులో అమరి ఉన్నాయి). ఒకే రసాయన ధర్మములు కలిగిన మూలకాలన్నీ ఆవర్తనపట్టికలో సాధారణంలో ఒకే గ్రూపులో ఉంటాయి. అదే విధంగా f-బ్లాకు మూలకాలు మరియు d-బ్లాకు మూలకాలు పీరియడ్లలో కూడా ఒకే ధర్మాలను కలిగి ఉంటాయి[4]
2013 నాటికి ఆవర్తన పట్టికలో 114 మూలకాలను కనుగొన్నారు. వీటిలో 1(హైడ్రోజన్) నుండి 112 (కోరెర్నీసియం), 114 (ఫ్లెరోవియం) మరియు 116 (లివెర్మోరియం) ఉన్నాయి. 113,115,117, మరియు 118 పరమాణు సంఖ్యలుగా గల మూలకాలు ప్రయోగశాలలో కృత్రికంగా తయారుచేయబడినా IUPAC అధికారికంగా ధృవపరచలేదు. అదే విధంగా ఈ మూలకాలు ప్రస్తుతం వాటి పరమాణు సంఖ్యను బట్టి క్రమబద్ధమైన పేర్లతో పిలువబడుతున్నవి..[5]
ఈ మూలకాలలో 98 మూలకాలు సహజసిద్ధమైనవి. మిగిలిన 16 మూలకాలు అనగా ఐన్‌స్టీనియం నుండి కోపెర్నీషియం వరకు, మరియు ప్లెరోవియం మరియు లివెర్మోరియం, వంటివి ప్రయోగశాలలో కృత్రిమంగా తయారుచేయబడ్డాయి. 98 సహజ మూలకాలలో 84 మూలకాలు ఆదిమ మూలకాలు(ప్రీమోర్డియల్ ఎలిమెంట్స్). మిగిలిన 14 మూలకాలు ఆదిమ మూలకాల యొక్క విఘటనం ద్వారా తయారైనవి [6] ఐన్‌స్టీనియం (మూలకం 99) కంటే భారీ సంఖ్య మూలకం ఎప్పుడూ దాని స్వచ్ఛమైన రూపంలో సూక్ష్మ పరిమాణంలో ఉన్నట్లు గమనించబడింది [7].
ఆవర్తన పట్టికలో "గ్రూపు" లేదా "కుటుంబం" అనునది నిలువుగా ఉన్న వరుస.పీరియడ్లు మరియు బ్లాకులులా కాకుండా గ్రూపులు విశిష్టమైన ఆవర్తన ధర్మాలను కలిగి ఉంటాయి. నవీన క్వాంటం సిద్ధాంతం ప్రకారం గ్రూపులలోని మూలకాలకు వేలన్సీ ఎలక్ట్రాన్ విన్యాసం ఒకేవిధంగా ఉంటుంది.[8] అదే విధంగా ఒకే గ్రూపులో గల మూలకాలు ఒకే రకమైన రసాయన ధర్మాలను వాటి పరమాణు సంఖ్య యొక్క ఆరోహణ క్రమంలో ఉంటుంది.[9] కానీ d-బ్లాకు మరియు f-బ్లాకు మూలకాలలో పరీశీలించినట్లయితే, వాటి నిలువ వరుస లోని సారూప్యాల కన్నా అడ్డు వరస లోని సారూప్యానికే ఎక్కువ ప్రాధాన్యత నిస్తారు.[10][11][12] అంతర్జాతీయ నామకరణ విధానాల పరంగా, ఎడమ వైపున ఉన్న క్షార లోహాల నుండి పూర్తి కుడి వైపున ఉన్న జడ వాయువు ల వరకు ఉన్న గ్రూపు లను సంఖ్యలలో 1 నుండి 18 గా గుర్తించడం జరిగింది.[13]. ఇంతకు మునుపు వీటిని రోమను సంఖ్యలో రాసేవారు.అమెరికాలో రోమను సంఖ్యలకు అదనంగా "A"ను (s-బ్లాకు లేదా p-బ్లాకు)కానీ "B"ను కానీ (d-బ్లాకు)చేర్చుతారు.అనగా రోమను సంఖ్యలు,ఆధునిక నామకరణ విధానం లోని చివరి అంకెను ప్రతిబింబిస్తుంది.(ఉదా: గ్రూపు 4 మూలకాలును IVB అనీ, గ్రూప్ 14 మూలకాలను IVA గా రాస్తారు.యూరోప్ లోని విధానము కూడా ఇంచుమించు సమానంగా ఉంటుంది. కానీ, "A"ని గ్రూప్ 10 మూలకాల ముందు వరకూ, గ్రూపు 10 మరియు తరవాత గ్రూపు లకు "B"ని వాడుతారు.ఈ రెండు పద్ధతులలో 8,9 మరియు 10 గ్రూపులను కలిసి కట్టుగా గ్రూప్ VII గా అభివర్ణికస్తారు.1988 లో కొత్త IUPAC నామకరణమును వాడుకలోకి తెచ్చారు..[14].ఈ గ్రూపులలో కొన్నింటికి సాధారణ పేర్లను(trivial/unsystematic names) ఆపాదించారు. గ్రూపు-3 నుండి గ్రూపు-10 వరకు ఎటువంటి సాధారణ పేర్లను పెట్టలేదు, వాటిని ఆ గ్రూపు సంఖ్యతో లేదా ఆ గ్రూపు లోని మొదటి మూలకం పేరు తోనో పిలుస్తారు.(ఉదా: గ్రూపు-3 ని స్కాండియం గ్రూపుగా పిలుస్తారు.)[13]
Elements in the same group tend to show patterns in atomic radius, ionization energy, and electronegativity. From top to bottom in a group, the atomic radii of the elements increase. Since there are more filled energy levels, valence electrons are found farther from the nucleus. From the top, each successive element has a lower ionization energy because it is easier to remove an electron since the atoms are less tightly bound. Similarly, a group has a top to bottom decrease in electronegativity due to an increasing distance between valence electrons and the nucleus.[15] There are exceptions to these trends, however, an example of which occurs in group 11 where electronegativity increases farther down the group.[16]
IUPAC group123aa456789101112131415161718Mendeleev (I–VIII)IAIIAIIIBIVBVBVIBVIIBVIIIBIBIIBIIIBIVBVBVIBVIIBbCAS (US, A-B-A)IAIIAIIIBIVBVBVIBVIIBVIIIBIBIIBIIIAIVAVAVIAVIIAVIIIAoldIUPAC (Europe, A-B)IAIIAIIIAIVAVAVIAVIIAVIIIBIBIIBIIIBIVBVBVIBVIIB0Trivial nameAlkali metalsAlkaline earth metalsrCoinage metalsTrielsTetrelsPnictogensrChalcogensrHalogensrNoble gasesrName by elementrLithium groupBeryllium groupScandium groupTitanium groupVanadium groupChromium groupManganese groupIron groupCobalt groupNickel groupCopper groupZinc groupBoron groupCarbon groupNitrogen groupOxygen groupFluorine groupHelium or Neon groupPeriod 1hHhHePeriod 2LiBeBCNOFNePeriod 3NaMgAlSiPSClArPeriod 4KCaScTiVCrMnFeCoNiCuZnGaGeAsSeBr KrPeriod 5RbSrYZrNbMoTcRuRhPdAgCdInSnSbTeIXePeriod 6CsBaLaCe–LuHfTaWReOsIrPtAuHgTlPbBiPoAtRnPeriod 7FrRaAcTh–LrRfDbSgBhHsMtDsRgCnNhFlMcLvTsOg
A period is a horizontal row in the periodic table. Although groups generally have more significant periodic trends, there are regions where horizontal trends are more significant than vertical group trends, such as the f-block, where the lanthanides and actinides form two substantial horizontal series of elements.[18]
Elements in the same period show trends in atomic radius, ionization energy, electron affinity, and electronegativity. Moving left to right across a period, atomic radius usually decreases. This occurs because each successive element has an added proton and electron which causes the electron to be drawn closer to the nucleus.[19] This decrease in atomic radius also causes the ionization energy to increase when moving from left to right across a period. The more tightly bound an element is, the more energy is required to remove an electron. Electronegativity increases in the same manner as ionization energy because of the pull exerted on the electrons by the nucleus.[15] Electron affinity also shows a slight trend across a period. Metals (left side of a period) generally have a lower electron affinity than nonmetals (right side of a period), with the exception of the noble gases.[20]
The different regions of the periodic table are sometimes referred to as blocks in recognition of the sequence in which the electron shells of the elements are filled. Each block is named according to the subshell in which the "last" electron notionally resides.[21][n 3] The s-block comprises the first two groups (alkali metals and alkaline earth metals) as well as hydrogen and helium. The p-block comprises the last six groups which are groups 13 to 18 in IUPAC (3Ato 8A in American) and contains, among other elements, all of the metalloids. The d-block comprises groups 3 to 12 in IUPAC (or3B to 2B in American group numbering) and contains all of the transition metals. The f-block, usually offset below the rest of the periodic table, comprises the lanthanides and actinides.[22]
The elements can be conveniently classified according to their shared physical and chemical properties into the major categories of metals, metalloids and nonmetals. Metals are generally located to the left and bottom of the periodic table. They are ordinarily shiny, highly conducting solids which form alloys with one another and salt-like ionic compounds with nonmetals. Nonmetals are located to the right and top. They are mostly coloured or colourless insulating gases that form covalent compounds with one another. In between metals and nonmetals are metalloids, which have intermediate or mixed properties.[23]
Metal and nonmetals can be further classified into similar subcategories that show a left to right gradation in metallic to non-metallic properties. The metals are divided into the highly reactive alkali metals, through the less reactive alkaline earth metals, lanthanides and actinides, via the archetypal transition metals, and ending in the physically and chemically weak poor metals. The nonmetals are simply subdivided into the polyatomic nonmetals which, being nearest the metalloids, show some incipient metallic character; the diatomic nonmetals, which are essentially nonmetallic; and the monatomic noble gases, which are almost completely inert and nonmetallic. Specialized groupings such as the refractory metals and the noble metals, which are subsets (in this example) of the transition metals, are also known[24] and occasionally denoted.[25]
Placing the elements into categories and subcategories based on shared properties is imperfect. There is a spectrum of properties within each category and it is not hard to find overlaps at the boundaries, as is the case with most classification schemes.[26] Beryllium, for example, is classified as an alkaline earth metal although its amphoteric chemistry and tendency to mostly form covalent compounds are both attributes of a chemically weak or poor metal. Radon is classified as a nonmetal and a noble gas yet has some cationic chemistry that is more characteristic of a metal. Other classification schemes are possible such as the division of the elements into mineralogical occurrence categories, or crystalline structures. Categorising the elements in this fashion dates back to at least 1869 when Hinrichs[27] wrote that simple boundary lines could be drawn on the periodic table to show elements having like properties, such as the metals and the nonmetals, or the gaseous elements.
In presentations of the periodic table, the lanthanides and the actinides are customarily shown as two additional rows below the main body of the table,[28] with placeholders or else a selected single element of each series (either lanthanum or lutetium, and either actinium or lawrencium, respectively) shown in a single cell of the main table, between barium and hafnium, and radium and rutherfordium, respectively. This convention is entirely a matter of aesthetics and formatting practicality; a rarely used wide-formatted periodic table inserts the lanthanide and actinide series in their proper places, as parts of the table's sixth and seventh rows (periods). Some periodic tables include a dividing line, or equivalent, between metals and nonmetals.[29]
Periodic table with f-block separated (left) and inline (right)
The electron configuration or organisation of electrons orbiting neutral atoms shows a recurring pattern or periodicity. The electrons occupy a series of electron shells (numbered shell 1, shell 2, and so on). Each shell consists of one or more subshells (named s, p, d, f and g). As atomic number increases, electrons progressively fill these shells and subshells more or less according to the Madelung rule or energy ordering rule, as shown in the diagram to the right. The electron configuration for neon, for example, is 1s2 2s2 2p6. With an atomic number of ten, neon has two electrons in the first shell, and eight electrons in the second shell—two in the s subshell and six in the p subshell. In periodic table terms, the first time an electron occupies a new shell corresponds to the start of each new period, these positions being occupied by hydrogen and the alkali metals.[30][31]
Since the properties of an element are mostly determined by its electron configuration, the properties of the elements likewise show recurring patterns or periodic behaviour, some examples of which are shown in the diagram on the left. It is this periodicity of properties, manifestations of which were noticed well before the underlying theory was developed, that led to the establishment of the periodic law (the properties of the elements recur at varying intervals) and the formulation of the first periodic tables.[30][31]
Atomic radii vary in a predictable and explainable manner across the periodic table. For instance, the radii generally decrease along each period of the table, from the alkali metals to the noble gases; and increase down each group. The radius increases sharply between the noble gas at the end of each period and the alkali metal at the beginning of the next period. These trends of the atomic radii (and of various other chemical and physical properties of the elements) can be explained by the electron shell theory of the atom; they provided important evidence for the development and confirmation of quantum theory.[32]
The electrons in the 4f-subshell, which is progressively filled from cerium (Z= 58) to lutetium (Z= 71), are not particularly effective at shielding the increasing nuclear charge from the sub-shells further out. The elements immediately following the lanthanides have atomic radii which are smaller than would be expected and which are almost identical to the atomic radii of the elements immediately above them.[33] Hence hafnium has virtually the same atomic radius (and chemistry) as zirconium, and tantalum has an atomic radius similar to niobium, and so forth. This is known as the lanthanide contraction. The effect of the lanthanide contraction is noticeable up to platinum (Z= 78), after which it is masked by a relativistic effect known as the inert pair effect.[34] The d-block contraction, which is a similar effect between the d-block and p-block, is less pronounced than the lanthanide contraction but arises from a similar cause.[33]
The first ionization energy is the energy it takes to remove one electron from an atom, the second ionization energy is the energy it takes to remove a second electron from the atom, and so on. For a given atom, successive ionization energies increase with the degree of ionization. For magnesium as an example, the first ionization energy is 738kJ/mol and the second is 1450kJ/mol. Electrons in the closer orbitals experience greater forces of electrostatic attraction; thus, their removal requires increasingly more energy. Ionization energy becomes greater up and to the right of the periodic table.[34]
Large jumps in the successive molar ionization energies occur when removing an electron from a noble gas (complete electron shell) configuration. For magnesium again, the first two molar ionization energies of magnesium given above correspond to removing the two 3s electrons, and the third ionization energy is a much larger 7730kJ/mol, for the removal of a 2p electron from the very stable neon-like configuration of Mg2+. Similar jumps occur in the ionization energies of other third-row atoms.[34]
Electronegativity is the tendency of an atom to attract electrons.[35] An atom's electronegativity is affected by both its atomic number and the distance between the valence electrons and the nucleus. The higher its electronegativity, the more an element attracts electrons. It was first proposed by Linus Pauling in 1932.[36] In general, electronegativity increases on passing from left to right along a period, and decreases on descending a group. Hence, fluorine is the most electronegative of the elements,[n 5] while caesium is the least, at least of those elements for which substantial data is available.[16]
There are some exceptions to this general rule. Gallium and germanium have higher electronegativities than aluminium and silicon respectively because of the d-block contraction. Elements of the fourth period immediately after the first row of the transition metals have unusually small atomic radii because the 3d-electrons are not effective at shielding the increased nuclear charge, and smaller atomic size correlates with higher electronegativity.[16] The anomalously high electronegativity of lead, particularly when compared to thallium and bismuth, appears to be an artifact of data selection (and data availability)—methods of calculation other than the Pauling method show the normal periodic trends for these elements.[37]
The electron affinity of an atom is the amount of energy released when an electron is added to a neutral atom to form a negative ion. Although electron affinity varies greatly, some patterns emerge. Generally, nonmetals have more positive electron affinity values than metals. Chlorine most strongly attracts an extra electron. The electron affinities of the noble gases have not been measured conclusively, so they may or may not have slightly negative values.[40]
Electron affinity generally increases across a period. This is caused by the filling of the valence shell of the atom; a group 17 atom releases more energy than a group 1 atom on gaining an electron because it obtains a filled valence shell and is therefore more stable.[40]
A trend of decreasing electron affinity going down groups would be expected. The additional electron will be entering an orbital farther away from the nucleus. As such this electron would be less attracted to the nucleus and would release less energy when added. However, in going down a group, around one-third of elements are anomalous, with heavier elements having higher electron affinities than their next lighter congenors. Largely, this is due to the poor shielding by d and f electrons. A uniform decrease in electron affinity only applies to group 1 atoms.[41]
The lower the values of ionization energy, electronegativity and electron affinity, the more metallic character the element has. Conversely, nonmetallic character increases with higher values of these properties.[42] Given the periodic trends of these three properties, metallic character tends to decrease going across a period and, with some irregularities (mostly) due to poor screening of the nucleus by d and f electrons, and relativistic effects,[43] tends to increase going down a group. Thus, the most metallic elements (such as caesium and francium) are found at the bottom left of traditional periodic tables and the most nonmetallic elements (oxygen, fluorine, chlorine) at the top right. The combination of horizontal and vertical trends in metallic character explains the stair-shaped dividing line between metals and nonmetals found on some periodic tables, and the practice of sometimes categorizing several elements adjacent to that line, or elements adjacent to those elements, as metalloids.[44][45]
In 1789, Antoine Lavoisier published a list of 33 chemical elements, grouping them into gases, metals, nonmetals, and earths;[46] Chemists spent the following century searching for a more precise classification scheme. In 1829, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner observed that many of the elements could be grouped into triads based on their chemical properties. Lithium, sodium, and potassium, for example, were grouped together in a triad as soft, reactive metals. Döbereiner also observed that, when arranged by atomic weight, the second member of each triad was roughly the average of the first and the third;[47] this became known as the Law of Triads.[48] German chemist Leopold Gmelin worked with this system, and by 1843 he had identified ten triads, three groups of four, and one group of five. Jean-Baptiste Dumas published work in 1857 describing relationships between various groups of metals. Although various chemists were able to identify relationships between small groups of elements, they had yet to build one scheme that encompassed them all.[47]
In 1858, German chemist August Kekulé observed that carbon often has four other atoms bonded to it. Methane, for example, has one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms. This concept eventually became known as valency; different elements bond with different numbers of atoms.[49]
In 1862, Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois, a French geologist, published an early form of periodic table, which he called the telluric helix or screw. He was the first person to notice the periodicity of the elements. With the elements arranged in a spiral on a cylinder by order of increasing atomic weight, de Chancourtois showed that elements with similar properties seemed to occur at regular intervals. His chart included some ions and compounds in addition to elements. His paper also used geological rather than chemical terms and did not include a diagram; as a result, it received little attention until the work of Dmitri Mendeleev.[50]
In 1864, Julius Lothar Meyer, a German chemist, published a table with 44 elements arranged by valency. The table showed that elements with similar properties often shared the same valency.[51] Concurrently, William Odling (an English chemist) published an arrangement of 57 elements, ordered on the basis of their atomic weights. With some irregularities and gaps, he noticed what appeared to be a periodicity of atomic weights amongst the elements and that this accorded with 'their usually received groupings.' [52] Odling alluded to the idea of a periodic law but did not pursue it.[53] He subsequently proposed (in 1870) a valence-based classification of the elements.[54]
English chemist John Newlands produced a series of papers from 1863 to 1866 noting that when the elements were listed in order of increasing atomic weight, similar physical and chemical properties recurred at intervals of eight; he likened such periodicity to the octaves of music.[55][56] This so termed Law of Octaves, however, was ridiculed by Newlands' contemporaries, and the Chemical Society refused to publish his work.[57] Newlands was nonetheless able to draft a table of the elements and used it to predict the existence of missing elements, such as germanium.[58] The Chemical Society only acknowledged the significance of his discoveries five years after they credited Mendeleev.[59]
In 1867, Gustavus Hinrichs, a Danish born academic chemist based in America, published a spiral periodic system based on atomic spectra and weights, and chemical similarities. His work was regarded as idiosyncratic, ostentatious and labyrinthine and this may have militated against its recognition and acceptance.[60][61]
Russian chemistry professor Dmitri Mendeleev and German chemist Julius Lothar Meyer independently published their periodic tables in 1869 and 1870, respectively.[62] Mendeleev's table was his first published version; that of Meyer was an expanded version of his (Meyer's) table of 1864.[63] They both constructed their tables by listing the elements in rows or columns in order of atomic weight and starting a new row or column when the characteristics of the elements began to repeat.[64]
The recognition and acceptance afforded to Mendeleev's table came from two decisions he made. The first was to leave gaps in the table when it seemed that the corresponding element had not yet been discovered.[65] Mendeleev was not the first chemist to do so, but he was the first to be recognized as using the trends in his periodic table to predict the properties of those missing elements, such as gallium and germanium.[66] The second decision was to occasionally ignore the order suggested by the atomic weights and switch adjacent elements, such as tellurium and iodine, to better classify them into chemical families. With the development of theories of atomic structure, it became apparent that Mendeleev had unintentionally listed the elements in order of increasing atomic number or nuclear charge.[67]
The significance of atomic numbers to the organization of the periodic table was not appreciated until the existence and properties of protons and neutrons became understood. Mendeleev's periodic tables used atomic weight instead of atomic number to organize the elements, information determinable to fair precision in his time. Atomic weight worked well enough in most cases to (as noted) give a presentation that was able to predict the properties of missing elements more accurately than any other method then known. Substitution of atomic numbers, once understood, gave a definitive, integer-based sequence for the elements, still used today even as new synthetic elements are being produced and studied.[68]
In 1871, Mendeleev published an updated form of periodic table (shown at left), as well as giving detailed predictions for the elements he had earlier noted were missing, but should exist.[69] These gaps were subsequently filled as chemists discovered additional naturally occurring elements.[70] It is often stated that the last naturally occurring element to be discovered was francium (referred to by Mendeleev as eka-caesium) in 1939.[71] However, plutonium, produced synthetically in 1940, was identified in trace quantities as a naturally occurring primordial element in 1971,[72] and by 2011 it was known that all the elements up to californium can occur naturally as trace amounts in uranium ores by neutron capture and beta decay.[6]
The popular[73] periodic table layout, also known as the common or standard form (as shown at various other points in this article), is attributable to Horace Groves Deming. In 1923, Deming, an American chemist, published short () and medium () form periodic tables.[74][n 6] Merck and Company prepared a handout form of Deming's 18-column medium table, in 1928, which was widely circulated in American schools. By the 1930s Deming's table was appearing in handbooks and encyclopaedias of chemistry. It was also distributed for many years by the Sargent-Welch Scientific Company.[75][76][77]
With the development of modern quantum mechanical theories of electron configurations within atoms, it became apparent that each period (row) in the table corresponded to the filling of a quantum shell of electrons. Larger atoms have more electron sub-shells, so later tables have required progressively longer periods.[78]
In 1945, Glenn Seaborg, an American scientist, made the suggestion that the actinide elements, like the lanthanides were filling an f sub-level. Before this time the actinides were thought to be forming a fourth d-block row. Seaborg's colleagues advised him not to publish such a radical suggestion as it would most likely ruin his career. As Seaborg considered he did not then have a career to bring into disrepute, he published anyway. Seaborg's suggestion was found to be correct and he subsequently went on to win the 1951 Nobel prize in chemistry for his work in synthesizing actinide elements.[79][80][n 7]
Although minute quantities of some transuranic elements occur naturally,[6] they were all first discovered in laboratories. Their production has expanded the periodic table significantly, the first of these being neptunium, synthesized in 1939.[81] Because many of the transuranic elements are highly unstable and decay quickly, they are challenging to detect and characterize when produced. There have been controversies concerning the acceptance of competing discovery claims for some elements, requiring independent review to determine which party has priority, and hence naming rights. The most recently accepted and named elements are flerovium (element 114) and livermorium (element 116), both named on 31 May 2012.[82] In 2010, a joint Russia–US collaboration at Dubna, Moscow Oblast, Russia, claimed to have synthesized six atoms of ununseptium (element 117), making it the most recently claimed discovery.[83]
There are many periodic tables with layouts other than that of the common or standard form. Within 100 years of the appearance of Mendeleev's table in 1869 it has been estimated that around 700 different periodic table versions were published.[84] As well as numerous rectangular variations, other periodic table formats have included, for example,[n 8] circular, cubic, cylindrical, edificial (building-like), helical, , octagonal prismatic, pyramidal, separated, spherical, spiral, and triangular forms. Such alternatives are often developed to highlight or emphasize chemical or physical properties of the elements that are not as apparent in traditional periodic tables.[84]
A popular[85] alternative layout is that of Theodor Benfey (1960). The elements are arranged in a continuous spiral, with hydrogen at the center and the transition metals, lanthanides, and actinides occupying peninsulas.[86]
Most periodic tables are two-dimensional[6] however three-dimensional tables are known to as far back as at least 1862 (pre-dating Mendeleev's two-dimensional table of 1869). More recent examples include Courtines' Periodic Classification (1925),[87] Wringley's Lamina System (1949),[88] Giguère's Periodic helix (1965)[89][n 9] and Dufour's Periodic Tree (1996).[90] Going one better, Stowe's Physicist's Periodic Table (1989)[91] has been described as being four-dimensional (having three spatial dimensions and one colour dimension).[92]
The various forms of periodic tables can be thought of as lying on a chemistry–physics continuum.[93] Towards the chemistry end of the continuum can be found, as an example, Rayner-Canham's 'unruly'[94] Inorganic Chemist's Periodic Table (2002),[95] which emphasizes trends and patterns, and unusual chemical relationships and properties. Near the physics end of the continuum is Janet's Left-Step Periodic Table (1928). This has a structure which shows a closer connection to the order of electron-shell filling and, by association, quantum mechanics.[96] Somewhere in the middle of the continuum is the ubiquitous common or standard form of periodic table. This is regarded as better expressing empirical trends in physical state, electrical and thermal conductivity, and oxidation numbers, and other properties easily inferred from traditional techniques of the chemical laboratory.[97]
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Although all elements up to ununoctium have been discovered, only elements up to hassium (element 108), along with copernicium (element 112), have known chemical properties. The other elements may behave differently from what would be predicted by extrapolation, due to relativistic effects; for example, flerovium has been predicted to possibly exhibit some noble-gas-like properties, even though it is currently placed in the carbon group.[98] More recent experiments have suggested, however, that flerovium behaves chemically like lead, as expected from its periodic table position.[99]
It is unclear whether new elements will continue the pattern of the current periodic table as period 8, or require further adaptations or adjustments. Seaborg expected the eighth period to follow the previously established pattern exactly, so that it would include a two-element s-block for elements 119 and 120, a new g-block for the next 18 elements, and 30 additional elements continuing the current f-, d-, and p-blocks.[100] More recently, physicists such as Pekka Pyykkö have theorized that these additional elements do not follow the Madelung rule, which predicts how electron shells are filled and thus affects the appearance of the present periodic table.[101]
The number of possible elements is not known. A very early suggestion made by Elliot Adams in 1911, and based on the arrangement of elements in each horizontal periodic table row, was that elements of atomic weight greater than 256± (which would equate to between elements 99 and 100 in modern-day terms) did not exist.[102] A higher—more recent—estimate is that the periodic table may end soon after the island of stability,[103] which is expected to center around element 126, as the extension of the periodic and nuclides tables is restricted by proton and neutron drip lines.[104] Other predictions of an end to the periodic table include at element 128 by John Emsley,[6] at element 137 by Richard Feynman[105] and at element 155 by Albert Khazan.[6][n 10]
The Bohr model exhibits difficulty for atoms with atomic number greater than 137, as any element with an atomic number greater than 137 would require 1s electrons to be traveling faster than c, the speed of light.[106] Hence the non-relativistic Bohr model is inaccurate when applied to such an element.
The relativistic Dirac equation has problems for elements with more than 137 protons. For such elements, the wave function of the Dirac ground state is oscillatory rather than bound, and there is no gap between the positive and negative energy spectra, as in the Klein paradox.[107] More accurate calculations taking into account the effects of the finite size of the nucleus indicate that the binding energy first exceeds the limit for elements with more than 173 protons. For heavier elements, if the innermost orbital (1s) is not filled, the electric field of the nucleus will pull an electron out of the vacuum, resulting in the spontaneous emission of a positron;[108] however, this does not happen if the innermost orbital is filled, so that element 173 is not necessarily the end of the periodic table.[109]
Hydrogen and helium are often placed in different places than their electron configurations would indicate; hydrogen is usually placed above lithium, in accordance with its electron configuration, but is sometimes placed above fluorine,[110] or even carbon,[110] as it also behaves somewhat similarly to them. Hydrogen is also sometimes placed in its own group, as it does not behave similarly enough to any element to be placed in a group with another.[111] Helium is almost always placed above neon, as they are very similar chemically, although it is occasionally placed above beryllium on account of having a comparable electron shell configuration (helium: 1s2; beryllium: [He] 2s2).[21]
The definition of a transition metal, as given by IUPAC, is an element whose atom has an incomplete d sub-shell, or which can give rise to cations with an incomplete d sub-shell.[112] By this definition all of the elements in groups 3–11 are transition metals. The IUPAC definition therefore excludes group 12, comprising zinc, cadmium and mercury, from the transition metals category.
Some chemists treat the categories "d-block elements" and "transition metals" interchangeably, thereby including groups 3–12 among the transition metals. In this instance the group 12 elements are treated as a special case of transition metal in which the d electrons are not ordinarily involved in chemical bonding. The recent discovery that mercury can use its d electrons in the formation of mercury(IV) fluoride (HgF4) has prompted some commentators to suggest that mercury can be regarded as a transition metal.[113] Other commentators, such as Jensen,[114] have argued that the formation of a compound like HgF4 can occur only under highly abnormal conditions. As such, mercury could not be regarded as a transition metal by any reasonable interpretation of the ordinary meaning of the term.[114]
Still other chemists further exclude the group 3 elements from the definition of a transition metal. They do so on the basis that the group 3 elements do not form any ions having a partially occupied d shell and do not therefore exhibit any properties characteristic of transition metal chemistry.[115] In this case, only groups 4–11 are regarded as transition metals.
Although scandium and yttrium are always the first two group 3 elements, the identity of the next two elements is not agreed upon; they are either lanthanum and actinium, or lutetium and lawrencium. Although there are some strong physical and chemical arguments supporting the latter arrangement not all authors are convinced.[116]
The many different forms of periodic table have prompted the question of whether there is an optimal or definitive form of periodic table. The answer to this question is thought to depend on whether the chemical periodicity seen to occur among the elements has an underlying truth, effectively hard-wired into the universe, or if any such periodicity is instead the product of subjective human interpretation, contingent upon the circumstances, beliefs and predilections of human observers. An objective basis for chemical periodicity would settle the questions about the location of hydrogen and helium, and the composition of group 3. Such an underlying truth, if it exists, is thought to have not yet been discovered. In its absence, the many different forms of periodic table can be regarded as variations on the theme of chemical periodicity, each of which explores and emphasizes different aspects, properties, perspectives and relationships of and among the elements.[n 11] The ubiquity of the standard or medium-long periodic table is thought to be a result of this layout having a good balance of features in terms of ease of construction and size, and its depiction of atomic order and periodic trends.[53][117]
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