The element that rusts iron, burns fuel and keeps you alive — and the most abundant element in the Earth's crust.
- Atomic number
- 8
- Atomic mass
- 15.999 u
- Phase
- Gas
- Electron configuration
- [He] 2s² 2p⁴
- Melting point
- 54.36 K · -218.8 °C
- Boiling point
- 90.2 K · -182.9 °C
- Density
- 0.001 g/cm³
- Electronegativity
- 3.44
- Period / Group
- 2 / 16
- Discovery year
- 1774