Periodic table / Metalloids

84Polonium

Polonium is a metalloid in group 16, period 6. At 25 °C it is a solid.

Po
Shells: 2, 8, 18, 32, 18, 6. A simple picture: electrons do not move in circles.
Symbol
Po
Atomic number
84 protons in the nucleus
Standard atomic weight
None. Polonium has no stable isotopes, so the mass of a sample depends on which isotopes it holds.
Electron configuration
[Xe] 4f14 5d10 6s2 6p4
Electrons in each shell
2, 8, 18, 32, 18, 6
Group, period, block
16, 6, p
Family
Metalloids
State at 25 °C
solid
Electronegativity
2 (Pauling scale)
First ionisation energy
812.2 kJ/mol (8.41807 eV)
Where these numbers come from

Atomic weight: IUPAC CIAAW, abridged standard atomic weights 2024. Electron configuration and ionisation energy: NIST Atomic Spectra Database. Family, state and electronegativity: PubChem. See Sources. Melting points, boiling points and densities are left out for now: published values differ between sources, and we will add them once each has been checked.