Lanthanum

Lanthanum, ₅₇La

Lanthanum
Pronunciation	/ˈlænθənəm/ ​(LAN-thə-nəm)
Appearance	sillery white
Standard atomic weight Ar, std(La)	7002138905470000000♠138.90547(7)
Lanthanum in the periodic cairt
Hydrogen Helium Lithium Beryllium Boron Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Fluorine Neon Sodium Magnesium Aluminium Silicon Phosphorus Sulfur Chlorine Argon Potassium Calcium Scandium Titanium Vanadium Chromium Manganese Airn Cobalt Nickel Capper Zinc Gallium Germanium Arsenic Selenium Bromine Krypton Rubidium Strontium Yttrium Zirconium Niobium Molybdenum Technetium Ruthenium Rhodium Palladium Siller (element) Cadmium Indium Tin Antimony Tellurium Iodine Xenon Caesium Barium Lanthanum Cerium Praseodymium Neodymium Promethium Samarium Europium Gadolinium Terbium Dysprosium Holmium Erbium Thulium Ytterbium Lutetium Hafnium Tantalum Tungsten Rhenium Osmium Iridium Platinum Gowd Mercur (element) Thallium Leid (element) Bismuth Polonium Astatine Radon Francium Radium Actinium Thorium Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Hassium Meitnerium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicium Ununtrium Flerovium Ununpentium Livermorium Ununseptium Ununoctium - ↑ La ↓ Ac barium ← lanthanum → cerium
Atomic nummer (Z)	57
Group	group 3
Period	period 6
Block	f-block
Element category	Lanthanide
Electron confeeguration	[Xe] 5d1 6s2
Electrons per shell	2, 8, 18, 18, 9, 2
Pheesical properties
Phase at STP	solit
Meltin pynt	1193 K ​(920 °C, ​1688 °F)
Bylin pynt	3737 K ​(3464 °C, ​6267 °F)
Density (near r.t.)	6.162 g/cm3
when liquid (at m.p.)	5.94 g/cm3
Heat o fusion	6.20 kJ/mol
Heat o vapourisation	402.1 kJ/mol
Molar heat capacity	27.11 J/(mol·K)
Vapour pressur (extrapolated) P (Pa) 1 10 100 1 k 10 k 100 k at T (K) 2005 2208 2458 2772 3178 3726
Atomic properties
Oxidation states	0, +1, +2, +3 strangly basic
Electronegativity	Pauling scale: 1.10
Atomic radius	empirical: 187 pm
Covalent radius	207±8 pm
Colour lines in a spectral range Spectral lines o lanthanum
Ither properties
Naitural occurrence	primordial
Creestal structur	​hexagonal
Speed o soond thin rod	2475 m/s (at 20 °C)
Thermal expansion	(r.t.) (α, poly) 12.1 µm/(m·K)
Thermal conductivity	13.4 W/(m·K)
Electrical resistivity	(r.t.) (α, poly) 615 n Ω·m
Magnetic orderin	paramagnetic
Young's modulus	(α form) 36.6 GPa
Shear modulus	(α form) 14.3 GPa
Bulk modulus	(α form) 27.9 GPa
Poisson ratio	(α form) 0.280
Mohs haurdness	2.5
Vickers haurdness	491 MPa
Brinell haurdness	363 MPa
CAS Nummer	7439-91-0
History
Diskivery	Carl Gustaf Mosander (1838)
Main isotopes o lanthanum
Iso­tope Abun­dance Hauf-life (t1/2) Decay mode Pro­duct 137La syn 6×104 y ε 137Ba 138La 0.090% 1.05×1011 y ε 138Ba β− 138Ce 139La 99.910% - (SF)
Decay modes in parentheses are predicted, but hisna yet been observed

Lanthanum is a chemical element wi the seembol La an atomic nummer 57. Lanthanum is a siller white metallic element an is the first element o the lanthanide series. It is foond in some rare-yird minerals, uisually in combination wi cerium an ither rare yird elements. Lanthanum is a malleable, ductile, an saft metal that oxidises rapidly whan exposed tae air. It is produced frae the minerals monazite an bastnäsite uisin a complex multistage extraction process. Lanthanum compoonds hae hantle applications as catalysts, additives in gless, carbon lichtin for studio lichtin an projection, igneetion elements in lichters an torches, electron cathodes, scintillators, an ithers. Lanthanum carbonate (La₂(CO₃)₃) haes been approved as a medicine for treatin renal failur.