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Barium, ₅₆Ba

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Barium
Pronunciation	/ˈbɛəriəm/ ​(BAIR-ee-əm)
Appearance	silvery gray; with a pale yellow tint
Standard atomic weight Ar°(Ba)
	137.327±0.007 137.33±0.01 (abridged)
Barium in the periodic table
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Atomic number (Z)	56
Group	group 2 (alkaline earth metals)
Period	period 6
Block	s-block
Electron configuration	[Xe] 6s2
Electrons per shell	2, 8, 18, 18, 8, 2
Physical properties
Phase at STP	solid
Melting point	1000 K ​(727 °C, ​1341 °F)
Boiling point	2118 K ​(1845 °C, ​3353 °F)
Density (at 20° C)	3.594 g/cm3
when liquid (at m.p.)	3.338 g/cm3
Heat of fusion	7.12 kJ/mol
Heat of vaporization	142 kJ/mol
Molar heat capacity	28.07 J/(mol·K)
Vapor pressure P (Pa) 1 10 100 1 k 10 k 100 k at T (K) 911 1038 1185 1388 1686 2170
Atomic properties
Oxidation states	common: +2 +1
Electronegativity	Pauling scale: 0.89
Ionization energies	1st: 502.9 kJ/mol 2nd: 965.2 kJ/mol 3rd: 3600 kJ/mol
Atomic radius	empirical: 222 pm
Covalent radius	215±11 pm
Van der Waals radius	268 pm
Color lines in a spectral range Spectral lines of barium
Other properties
Natural occurrence	primordial
Crystal structure	​body-centered cubic (bcc) (cI2)
Lattice constant	Body-centered cubic crystal structure for barium a = 502.5 pm (at 20 °C)
Thermal expansion	20.47×10−6/K (at 20 °C)
Thermal conductivity	18.4 W/(m⋅K)
Electrical resistivity	332 nΩ⋅m (at 20 °C)
Magnetic ordering	paramagnetic
Molar magnetic susceptibility	+20.6×10−6 cm3/mol
Young's modulus	13 GPa
Shear modulus	4.9 GPa
Bulk modulus	9.6 GPa
Speed of sound thin rod	1620 m/s (at 20 °C)
Mohs hardness	1.25
CAS Number	7440-39-3
History
Discovery	Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1772)
First isolation	Humphry Davy (1808)
Isotopes of barium
Main isotopes Decay abun­dance half-life (t1/2) mode pro­duct 130Ba 0.11% (0.5–2.7)×1021 y εε 130Xe 131Ba synth 11.52 d β+ 131Cs 132Ba 0.1% stable 133Ba synth 10.51 y ε 133Cs 134Ba 2.42% stable 135Ba 6.59% stable 136Ba 7.85% stable 137Ba 11.2% stable 138Ba 71.7% stable 140Ba synth 12.7534 d β− 140La

Ba · Barium
Cs ← ibox Cs	iso 56 Ba  [] IB-Ba [] IBisos []	→ La ibox La
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child table, as reused in {IB-Ba}
Main isotopes of barium
Main isotopes Decay abun­dance half-life (t1/2) mode pro­duct 130Ba 0.11% (0.5–2.7)×1021 y εε 130Xe 131Ba synth 11.52 d β+ 131Cs 132Ba 0.1% stable 133Ba synth 10.51 y ε 133Cs 134Ba 2.42% stable 135Ba 6.59% stable 136Ba 7.85% stable 137Ba 11.2% stable 138Ba 71.7% stable 140Ba synth 12.7534 d β− 140La

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