Periodic table / Metalloids
84Polonium
Polonium is a metalloid in group 16, period 6. At 25 °C it is a solid.
- 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.