Berkelium, 00Bk
Berkelium
Pronunciation
Appearancesilvery
Mass number[247]
Berkelium in the periodic table
Hydrogen Helium
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Francium Radium Actinium Thorium Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Hassium Meitnerium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicium Nihonium Flerovium Moscovium Livermorium Tennessine Oganesson
Tb

Bk

(Uqe)
curiumberkeliumcalifornium
Groupf-block groups (no number)
Periodperiod 7
Block  f-block
Electron configuration[Rn] 5f9 7s2
Electrons per shell2, 8, 18, 32, 27, 8, 2
Physical properties
Phase at STPsolid
Melting pointbeta: 1259 K ​(986 °C, ​1807 °F)
Boiling pointbeta: 2900 K ​(2627 °C, ​4760 °F)
Density (near r.t.)alpha: 14.78 g/cm3
beta: 13.25 g/cm3
Atomic properties
Oxidation statescommon: +3
+2,? +4,[1] +5[2]
ElectronegativityPauling scale: 1.3
Ionization energies
  • 1st: 601 kJ/mol
Atomic radiusempirical: 170 pm
Color lines in a spectral range
Spectral lines of berkelium
Other properties
Natural occurrencesynthetic
Crystal structurehexagonal close-packed (hcp)
Hexagonal close-packed crystal structure for berkelium
Thermal conductivity10 W/(m⋅K)
Magnetic orderingparamagnetic
CAS Number7440-40-6
History
Discovery1949
Isotopes of berkelium
Main isotopes[3] Decay
abun­dance half-life (t1/2) mode pro­duct
245Bk synth 4.94 d ε 245Cm
α 241Am
246Bk synth 1.8 d α 242Am
β+ 246Cm
247Bk synth 1380 y α 243Am
248Bk synth >9 y[4] α 244Am
249Bk synth 330 d β 249Cf
α 245Am
SF
 Category: Berkelium
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References

  1. ^ Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-08-037941-8.
  2. ^ Kovács, Attila; Dau, Phuong D.; Marçalo, Joaquim; Gibson, John K. (2018). "Pentavalent Curium, Berkelium, and Californium in Nitrate Complexes: Extending Actinide Chemistry and Oxidation States". Inorg. Chem. 57 (15). American Chemical Society: 9453–9467. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01450. OSTI 1631597. PMID 30040397. S2CID 51717837.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Milsted, J.; Friedman, A. M.; Stevens, C. M. (1965). "The alpha half-life of berkelium-247; a new long-lived isomer of berkelium-248". Nuclear Physics. 71 (2): 299. doi:10.1016/0029-5582(65)90719-4.