Essential in trace amounts, brittle in bulk, and the reason your steel does not shatter in the cold.
- Atomic number
- 25
- Atomic mass
- 54.938 u
- Phase
- Solid
- Electron configuration
- [Ar] 3d⁵ 4s²
- Melting point
- 1,519 K · 1,245.9 °C
- Boiling point
- 2,334 K · 2,060.9 °C
- Density
- 7.21 g/cm³
- Electronegativity
- 1.55
- Period / Group
- 4 / 7
- Discovery year
- 1774