Once more precious than gold, now the most-used metal after iron — because someone worked out how to electrolyse it cheaply.
- Atomic number
- 13
- Atomic mass
- 26.982 u
- Phase
- Solid
- Electron configuration
- [Ne] 3s² 3p¹
- Melting point
- 933.47 K · 660.3 °C
- Boiling point
- 2,792 K · 2,518.9 °C
- Density
- 2.7 g/cm³
- Electronegativity
- 1.61
- Period / Group
- 3 / 13
- Discovery year
- 1825