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Radium, ₈₈Ra

Radium
Pronunciation	/ˈreɪdiəm/ ​(RAY-dee-əm)
Appearance	silvery white metallic
Mass number	[226]
Radium in the periodic table
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Atomic number (Z)	88
Group	group 2 (alkaline earth metals)
Period	period 7
Block	s-block
Electron configuration	[Rn] 7s2
Electrons per shell	2, 8, 18, 32, 18, 8, 2
Physical properties
Phase at STP	solid
Melting point	973 K ​(700 °C, ​1292 °F) (disputed)
Boiling point	2010 K ​(1737 °C, ​3159 °F)
Density (near r.t.)	5.5 g/cm3
Heat of fusion	8.5 kJ/mol
Heat of vaporization	113 kJ/mol
Vapor pressure P (Pa) 1 10 100 1 k 10 k 100 k at T (K) 819 906 1037 1209 1446 1799
Atomic properties
Oxidation states	+2 (expected to have a strongly basic oxide)
Electronegativity	Pauling scale: 0.9
Ionization energies	1st: 509.3 kJ/mol 2nd: 979.0 kJ/mol
Covalent radius	221±2 pm
Van der Waals radius	283 pm
Spectral lines of radium
Other properties
Natural occurrence	from decay
Crystal structure	​body-centered cubic (bcc) (cF4)
Lattice constant	a = 514.8 pm (near r.t.)
Thermal conductivity	18.6 W/(m⋅K)
Electrical resistivity	1 µΩ⋅m (at 20 °C)
Magnetic ordering	nonmagnetic
CAS Number	7440-14-4
History
Discovery	Pierre and Marie Curie (1898)
First isolation	Marie Curie (1910)
Isotopes of radium
Main isotopes Decay abun­dance half-life (t1/2) mode pro­duct 223Ra trace 11.43 d α 219Rn 224Ra trace 3.6319 d α 220Rn 225Ra trace 14.9 d β− 225Ac 226Ra trace 1599 y α 222Rn 228Ra trace 5.75 y β− 228Ac

Ra · Radium
Fr ← ibox Fr	iso 88 Ra  [] IB-Ra [] IBisos []	→ Ac ibox Ac
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child table, as reused in {IB-Ra}
Main isotopes of radium
Main isotopes Decay abun­dance half-life (t1/2) mode pro­duct 223Ra trace 11.43 d α 219Rn 224Ra trace 3.6319 d α 220Rn 225Ra trace 14.9 d β− 225Ac 226Ra trace 1599 y α 222Rn 228Ra trace 5.75 y β− 228Ac

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