The most expensive precious metal on Earth by weight, and the reason your car's exhaust is not toxic.
- Atomic number
- 45
- Atomic mass
- 102.906 u
- Phase
- Solid
- Electron configuration
- [Kr] 4d⁸ 5s¹
- Melting point
- 2,237 K · 1,963.9 °C
- Boiling point
- 3,968 K · 3,694.9 °C
- Density
- 12.41 g/cm³
- Electronegativity
- 2.28
- Period / Group
- 5 / 9
- Discovery year
- 1803