Periodic table

The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the elements, is an ordered arrangement of the chemical elements into rows ("periods") and columns
("groups"). It is an icon of chemistry and is widely used in physics and other sciences. It is a depiction of the periodic law, which states that when the elements are
arranged in order of their atomic numbers an approximate recurrence of their properties is evident. The table is divided into four roughly rectangular areas called
blocks. Elements in the same group tend to show similar chemical characteristics.

Vertical, horizontal and diagonal trends characterize the periodic table. Metallic character increases going down a group and decreases from left to right across a
period. Nonmetallic character increases going from the bottom left of the periodic table to the top right.

The first periodic table to become generally accepted was that of the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869; he formulated the periodic law as a dependence
of chemical properties on atomic mass. As not all elements were then known, there were gaps in his periodic table, and Mendeleev successfully used the periodic
law to predict some properties of some of the missing elements. The periodic law was recognized as a fundamental discovery in the late 19th century. It was
explained early in the 20th century, with the discovery of atomic numbers and associated pioneering work in quantum mechanics, both ideas serving to illuminate
the internal structure of the atom. A recognisably modern form of the table was reached in 1945 with Glenn T. Seaborg's discovery that the actinides were in fact f-
block rather than d-block elements. The periodic table and law are now a central and indispensable part of modern chemistry.

The periodic table continues to evolve with the progress of science. In nature, only elements up to atomic number 94 exist;[a] to go further, it was necessary to
synthesise new elements in the laboratory. By 2010, the first 118 elements were known, thereby completing the first seven rows of the table;[1] however, chemical
characterization is still needed for the heaviest elements to confirm that their properties match their positions. New discoveries will extend the table beyond these
seven rows, though it is not yet known how many more elements are possible; moreover, theoretical calculations suggest that this unknown region will not follow
the patterns of the known part of the table. Some scientific discussion also continues regarding whether some elements are correctly positioned in today's table.
Many alternative representations of the periodic law exist, and there is some discussion as to whether there is an optimal form of the periodic table.

Overview
Periodic table
Group 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Hydrogen Alkaline Triels Tetrels Pnicto- Chal- Halo- Noble
& earth gens cogens gens gases
alkali metals
metals
Hydrogen Helium
Period
1 1 2
H He
1.0080 4.0026
Lithium Beryl- Boron Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Fluorine Neon
lium
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Li Be B C N O F Ne
6.94 9.0122 10.81 12.011 14.007 15.999 18.998 20.180
Sodium Magne- Alumin- Silicon Phos- Sulfur Chlorine Argon
sium ium phorus
3 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar
22.990 24.305 26.982 28.085 30.974 32.06 35.45 39.95
Potas- Calcium Scan- Tita- Vana- Chrom- Manga- Iron Cobalt Nickel Copper Zinc Gallium Germa- Arsenic Sele- Bromine Kryp-
sium dium nium dium ium nese nium nium ton
4 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
K Ca Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br Kr
39.098 40.078 44.956 47.867 50.942 51.996 54.938 55.845 58.933 58.693 63.546 65.38 69.723 72.630 74.922 78.971 79.904 83.798
Rubidium Stront- Yttrium Zirco- Nio- Molyb- Tech- Ruthe- Rho- Pallad- Silver Cad- Indium Tin Anti- Tellur- Iodine Xenon
ium nium bium denum netium nium dium ium mium mony ium
5 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54
Rb Sr Y Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn Sb Te I Xe
85.468 87.62 88.906 91.224 92.906 95.95 [97] 101.07 102.91 106.42 107.87 112.41 114.82 118.71 121.76 127.60 126.90 131.29
Caesium Barium Lute- Haf- Tanta- Tung- Rhe- Os- Iridium Plat- Gold Mercury Thallium Lead Bismuth Polo- Astatine Radon
tium nium lum sten nium mium inum nium
6 55 56 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86
Cs Ba Lu Hf Ta W Re Os Ir Pt Au Hg Tl Pb Bi Po At Rn
132.91 137.33 174.97 178.49 180.95 183.84 186.21 190.23 192.22 195.08 196.97 200.59 204.38 207.2 208.98 [209] [210] [222]
Francium Radium Lawren- Ruther- Dub- Sea- Bohr- Has- Meit- Darm- Roent- Coper- Nihon- Flerov- Moscov- Liver- Tenness- Oga-
cium fordium nium borgium ium sium nerium stadtium genium nicium ium ium ium morium ine nesson
7 87 88 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118
Fr Ra Lr Rf Db Sg Bh Hs Mt Ds Rg Cn Nh Fl Mc Lv Ts Og
[223] [226] [266] [267] [268] [269] [270] [269] [278] [281] [282] [285] [286] [289] [290] [293] [294] [294]

Lan- Cerium Praseo- Neo- Prome- Sama- Europ- Gadolin- Ter- Dyspro- Hol- Erbium Thulium Ytter-
thanum dymium dymium thium rium ium ium bium sium mium bium
57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70
La Ce Pr Nd Pm Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb
138.91 140.12 140.91 144.24 [145] 150.36 151.96 157.25 158.93 162.50 164.93 167.26 168.93 173.05
Actin- Thor- Protac- Ura- Neptu- Pluto- Ameri- Curium Berkel- Califor- Einstei- Fer- Mende- Nobel-
ium ium tinium nium nium nium cium ium nium nium mium levium ium
89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102
Ac Th Pa U Np Pu Am Cm Bk Cf Es Fm Md No
[227] 232.04 231.04 238.03 [237] [244] [243] [247] [247] [251] [252] [257] [258] [259]

Primordial From decay Synthetic Border shows natural occurrence of the element

Ca: 40.078 — Abridged value (uncertainty omitted here)[3]

Standard atomic weight Ar, std(E)[2]Po: [209] — mass number of the most stable isotope

s-block f-block d-block p-block

Each chemical element has a unique atomic number (Z ) representing the number of protons in its nucleus.[4] All elements have multiple isotopes, variants with
the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons. For example, carbon has three naturally occurring isotopes: all of its atoms have six protons and
most have six neutrons as well, but about one per cent have seven neutrons, and a very small fraction have eight neutrons. Isotopes are never separated in the
periodic table; they are always grouped together under a single element. When atomic mass is shown, it is usually the weighted average of naturally occurring
isotopes; but if no isotopes occur naturally in significant quantities, the mass of the most stable isotope usually appears, often in parentheses.[5]

In the standard periodic table, the elements are listed in order of increasing atomic number Z. A new row (period) is started when a new electron shell has its first
electron. Columns (groups) are determined by the electron configuration of the atom; elements with the same number of electrons in a particular subshell fall into
the same columns (e.g. oxygen, sulfur, and selenium are in the same column because they all have four electrons in the outermost p-subshell). Elements with
similar chemical properties generally fall into the same group in the periodic table, although in the f-block, and to some respect in the d-block, the elements in the
same period tend to have similar properties, as well. Thus, it is relatively easy to predict the chemical properties of an element if one knows the properties of the
elements around it.[6]

The first 94 elements occur naturally;[a] the remaining 24, americium to oganesson (95–118), occur only when synthesized in laboratories. Of the 94 naturally
occurring elements, 83 are primordial and 11 occur only in decay chains of primordial elements. A few of the latter are so rare that they were not discovered in
nature, but were synthesized in the laboratory before it was determined that they do exist in nature after all: technetium (element 43), promethium (element 61),
astatine (element 85), neptunium (element 93), and plutonium (element 94).[7] No element heavier than einsteinium (element 99) has ever been observed in
macroscopic quantities in its pure form, nor has astatine; francium (element 87) has been only photographed in the form of light emitted from microscopic
quantities (300,000 atoms).[8]

Group names and numbers

Under an international naming convention, the groups are numbered numerically from 1 to 18 from the leftmost column (the alkali metals) to the rightmost
column (the noble gases). The f-block groups are ignored in this numbering.[9] Groups can also be named by their first element, e.g. the "scandium group" for
group 3.[9] Previously, groups were known by Roman numerals. In the United States, the Roman numerals were followed by either an "A" if the group was in the
s- or p-block, or a "B" if the group was in the d-block. The Roman numerals used correspond to the last digit of today's naming convention (e.g. the group 4
elements were group IVB, and the group 14 elements were group IVA). In Europe, the lettering was similar, except that "A" was used for groups 1 through 7, and
"B" was used for groups 11 through 17. In addition, groups 8, 9 and 10 used to be treated as one triple-sized group, known collectively in both notations as group
VIII. In 1988, the new IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) naming system (1–18) was put into use, and the old group names (I–VIII)
were deprecated.[10]

Groups in the periodic table [hide]

IUPAC group 1a 2 —b 3c 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Mendeleev (I–VIII) I II III IV V VI VII VIII I II III IV V VI VII d

CAS (US, A-B-A) IA IIA IIIB IVB VB VIB VIIB VIIIB IB IIB IIIA IVA VA VIA VIIA VIIIA
Old IUPAC (Europe, A-B) IA IIA IIIA IVA VA VIA VIIA VIII IB IIB IIIB IVB VB VIB VIIB 0
Trivial namer H and alkaline triels tetrels pnicto- chalco- halo- noble
alkali earth gens gens gens gases
metals metals
Name by elementr lithium beryl- scan- titan- vana- chro- man- iron cobalt nickel copper zinc boron carbon nitro- oxygen fluor- helium
group lium dium ium dium mium ga- group group group group group group group gen group ine or
group group group group group nese group group neon
group group
Period 1 H He
Period 2 Li Be B C N O F Ne
Period 3 Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar
Period 4 K Ca Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br Kr
Period 5 Rb Sr Y Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn Sb Te I Xe
Period 6 Cs Ba La–Yb Lu Hf Ta W Re Os Ir Pt Au Hg Tl Pb Bi Po At Rn
Period 7 Fr Ra Ac–No Lr Rf Db Sg Bh Hs Mt Ds Rg Cn Nh Fl Mc Lv Ts Og
a Group 1 is composed of hydrogen (H) and the alkali metals. Elements of the group have one s-electron in the outer electron shell. Hydrogen is not considered to be an alkali metal as it is not
a metal, though it is more analogous to them than any other group. This makes the group somewhat exceptional.
b The 14 f-block groups (columns) do not have a group number.
c The correct composition of group 3 is scandium (Sc), yttrium (Y), lutetium (Lu), and lawrencium (Lr), as shown here: this is endorsed by 1988[10] and 2021[11] IUPAC reports on the
question. General inorganic chemistry texts often put scandium (Sc), yttrium (Y), lanthanum (La), and actinium (Ac) in group 3, so that Ce–Lu and Th–Lr become the f-block between groups
3 and 4; this was based on incorrectly measured electron configurations from history,[12] and Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz already considered it incorrect in 1948.[13] Arguments can still
occasionally be encountered in the contemporary literature purporting to defend it, but most authors consider them logically inconsistent.[14][15][16] Some sources follow a compromise that
puts La–Lu and Ac–Lr as the f-block rows (despite that giving 15 f-block elements in each row, which contradicts quantum mechanics), leaving the heavier members of group 3 ambiguous.[11]
See also Group 3 element#Composition.
d Group 18, the noble gases, were not discovered at the time of Mendeleev's original table. Later (1902), Mendeleev accepted the evidence for their existence, and they could be placed in a new
"group 0", consistently and without breaking the periodic table principle.
r Group name as recommended by IUPAC.

Presentation forms
For reasons of space,[17][18] the periodic table is commonly presented with the f-block elements cut out and positioned as a
distinct part below the main body.[19][17][10] This reduces the number of element columns from 32 to 18.[17]

Both forms represent the same periodic table.[20] The form with the f-block included in the main body is sometimes called the 32-
32 columns
column[20] or long form;[21] the form with the f-block cut out the 18-column[20] or medium-long form.[21] The 32-column form
has the advantage of showing all elements in their correct sequence, but it has the disadvantage of requiring more space.[22] The
form chosen is an editorial choice, and does not imply any change of scientific claim or statement. For example, when discussing
the composition of group 3, the options can be shown equally (unprejudiced) in both forms.[23]

Periodic tables usually at least show the elements' symbols; many also provide supplementary information about the elements,
either via colour-coding or as data in the cells. The above table shows the names and atomic numbers of the elements, and also 18 columns
their blocks, natural occurrences and standard atomic weights. For the short-lived elements without standard atomic weights, the
mass number of the most stable known isotope is used instead. Other tables may include properties such as state of matter, melting and boiling points, densities,
as well as provide different classifications of the elements.[b]

Atomic structures of the elements

The nucleus and its surrounding electrons

The smallest constituents of all normal matter are known as atoms. Atoms are extremely small, being about one ten-billionth of a meter across; thus their internal
structure is governed by quantum mechanics.[24] Atoms consist of a small positively charged nucleus, made of
positively charged protons and uncharged neutrons, surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons; the
charges cancel out, so atoms are neutral.[25] Electrons participate in chemical reactions, but the nucleus does
not.[25] When atoms participate in chemical reactions, they either gain or lose electrons to form positively- or
negatively-charged ions; or share electrons with each other.[19]

Atoms can be subdivided into different types based on the number of protons (and thus also electrons) they
have.[25] This is called the atomic number, often symbolised Z [26] (for "Zahl" — German for "number"). Each
distinct atomic number therefore corresponds to a class of atom: these classes are called the chemical
elements.[27] The chemical elements are what the periodic table classifies and organises. Hydrogen is the
element with atomic number 1; helium, atomic number 2; lithium, atomic number 3; and so on. Each of these
names can be further abbreviated by a one- or two-letter chemical symbol; those for hydrogen, helium, and
lithium are respectively H, He, and Li.[20] Neutrons do not affect the atom's chemical identity, but do affect its
weight. Atoms with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons are called isotopes of the
same chemical element.[20] Naturally occurring elements usually occur as mixes of different isotopes; since
each isotope usually occurs with a characteristic abundance, naturally occurring elements have well-defined
atomic weights, defined as the average mass of a naturally occurring atom of that element.[28] 3D views of some hydrogen-like atomic orbitals
showing probability density and phase (g orbitals and
Today, 118 elements are known, the first 94 of which are known to occur naturally on Earth at present.[29][a]
Of higher are not shown)
the 94 natural elements, eighty have a stable isotope and one more (bismuth) has an almost-stable isotope
(with a half-life of 2.01×1019 years, over a billion times the age of the universe).[32][c] Two more, thorium and
uranium, have isotopes undergoing radioactive decay with a half-life comparable to the age of the Earth. The stable elements plus bismuth, thorium, and uranium
make up the 83 primordial elements that survived from the Earth's formation.[d] The remaining eleven natural elements decay quickly enough that their
continued trace occurrence rests primarily on being constantly regenerated as intermediate products of the decay of thorium and uranium.[e] All 24 known
artificial elements are radioactive.[20]

Electron configurations
The periodic table is a graphic description of the periodic law,[39] which states that the properties and atomic structures of the chemical elements are a periodic
function of their atomic number.[40] Elements are placed in the periodic table according to their electron configurations,[41] the periodic recurrences of which
explain the trends in properties across the periodic table.[42]

An electron can be thought of as inhabiting an atomic orbital, which characterises the probability it can be found in any particular region around the atom. Their
energies are quantised, which is to say that they can only take discrete values. Furthermore, electrons obey the Pauli exclusion principle: different electrons must
always be in different states. This allows classification of the possible states an electron can take in various energy levels known as shells, divided into individual
subshells, which each contain one or more orbitals. Each orbital can contain up to two electrons: they are distinguished by a quantity known as spin,
conventionally labeled "up" or "down".[43][f] In a cold atom (one in its ground state), electrons arrange themselves in such a way that the total energy they have is
minimised by occupying the lowest-energy orbitals available.[45] Only the outermost electrons (so-called valence electrons) have enough energy to break free of
the nucleus and participate in chemical reactions with other atoms. The others are called core electrons.[46]

Elements are known with up to the first seven shells occupied. The first shell
ℓ= 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
contains only one orbital, a spherical s orbital. As it is in the first shell, this is Shell capacity (2n2)[47]
called the 1s orbital. This can hold up to two electrons. The second shell similarly Orbital s p d f g h i

contains a 2s orbital, and it also contains three dumbbell-shaped 2p orbitals, and n=1 1s 2
can thus fill up to eight electrons (2×1 + 2×3 = 8). The third shell contains one 3s n=2 2s 2p 8
orbital, three 3p orbitals, and five 3d orbitals, and thus has a capacity of 2×1 +
n=3 3s 3p 3d 18
2×3 + 2×5 = 18. The fourth shell contains one 4s orbital, three 4p orbitals, five 4d
orbitals, and seven 4f orbitals, thus leading to a capacity of 2×1 + 2×3 + 2×5 + n=4 4s 4p 4d 4f 32
2×7 = 32.[17] Higher shells contain more types of orbitals that continue the n=5 5s 5p 5d 5f 5g 50
pattern, but such types of orbitals are not filled in the ground states of known
n=6 6s 6p 6d 6f 6g 6h 72
elements.[48] The subshell types are characterised by the quantum numbers. Four
n=7 7s 7p 7d 7f 7g 7h 7i 98
numbers describe an orbital in an atom completely: the principal quantum
number n, the azimuthal quantum number ℓ (the orbital type), the orbital Subshell capacity (4ℓ+2) 2 6 10 14 18 22 26
magnetic quantum number mℓ, and the spin magnetic quantum number ms.[42]

The order of subshell filling

The sequence in which the subshells are filled is given in most cases by the Aufbau principle, also known as the Madelung or
Klechkovsky rule (after Erwin Madelung and Vsevolod Klechkovsky respectively). This rule was first observed empirically by
Madelung, and Klechkovsky and later authors gave it theoretical justification.[49][50][51][52][g] The shells overlap in energies, and
the Madelung rule specifies the sequence of filling according to:[50]

1s ≪ 2s < 2p ≪ 3s < 3p ≪ 4s < 3d < 4p ≪ 5s < 4d < 5p ≪ 6s < 4f < 5d < 6p ≪ 7s < 5f < 6d < 7p ≪ ...

Here the sign ≪ means "much less than" as opposed to < meaning just "less than".[50] Phrased differently, electrons enter orbitals
in order of increasing n + ℓ, and if two orbitals are available with the same value of n + ℓ, the one with lower n is occupied first.[48]
[52] In general, orbitals with the same value of n + ℓ are similar in energy, but in the case of the s-orbitals (with ℓ = 0), quantum

effects raise their energy to approach that of the next n + ℓ group. Hence the periodic table is usually drawn to begin each row Idealized order of subshell
(often called a period) with the filling of a new s-orbital, which corresponds to the beginning of a new shell.[50][51][17] Thus, with filling according to the
Madelung rule
the exception of the first row, each period length appears twice:[50]

2, 8, 8, 18, 18, 32, 32, ...

The overlaps get quite close at the point where the d-orbitals enter the picture,[53] and the order can shift slightly with atomic number[54] and atomic charge.[55][h]

Starting from the simplest atom, this lets us build up the periodic table one at a time in order of atomic number, by considering the cases of single atoms. In
hydrogen, there is only one electron, which must go in the lowest-energy orbital 1s. This electron configuration is written 1s1, where the superscript indicates the
number of electrons in the subshell. Helium adds a second electron, which also goes into 1s, completely filling the first shell and giving the configuration 1s2.[42]
[61][i]
Starting from the third element, lithium, the first shell is full, so its third electron occupies a 2s orbital, giving a 1s2 2s1 configuration. The 2s electron is lithium's
only valence electron, as the 1s subshell is now too tightly bound to the nucleus to participate in chemical bonding to other atoms: such a shell is called a "core
shell". The 1s subshell is a core shell for all elements from lithium onward. The 2s subshell is completed by the next element beryllium (1s2 2s2). The following
elements then proceed to fill the 2p subshell. Boron (1s2 2s2 2p1) puts its new electron in a 2p orbital; carbon (1s2 2s2 2p2) fills a second 2p orbital; and with
nitrogen (1s2 2s2 2p3) all three 2p orbitals become singly occupied. This is consistent with Hund's rule, which states that atoms usually prefer to singly occupy
each orbital of the same type before filling them with the second electron. Oxygen (1s2 2s2 2p4), fluorine (1s2 2s2 2p5), and neon (1s2 2s2 2p6) then complete the
already singly filled 2p orbitals; the last of these fills the second shell completely.[42][61]

Starting from element 11, sodium, the second shell is full, making the second shell a core shell for this and all heavier elements. The eleventh electron begins the
filling of the third shell by occupying a 3s orbital, giving a configuration of 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s1 for sodium. This configuration is abbreviated [Ne] 3s1, where [Ne]
represents neon's configuration. Magnesium ([Ne] 3s2) finishes this 3s orbital, and the following six elements aluminium, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine,
and argon fill the three 3p orbitals ([Ne] 3s2 3p1 through [Ne] 3s2 3p6).[42][61] This creates an analogous series in which the outer shell structures of sodium
through argon are analogous to those of lithium through neon, and is the basis for the periodicity of chemical properties that the periodic table illustrates:[42] at
regular but changing intervals of atomic numbers, the properties of the chemical elements approximately repeat.[39]

The first eighteen elements can thus be arranged as the start of a periodic table. Elements in the same column have the same number of valence electrons and have
analogous valence electron configurations: these columns are called groups. The single exception is helium, which has two valence electrons like beryllium and
magnesium, but is typically placed in the column of neon and argon to emphasise that its outer shell is full. (Some contemporary authors question even this single
exception, preferring to consistently follow the valence configurations and place helium over beryllium.) There are eight columns in this periodic table fragment,
corresponding to at most eight outer-shell electrons.[19] A period begins when a new shell starts filling.[17] Finally, the colouring illustrates the blocks: the
elements in the s-block (coloured red) are filling s-orbitals, while those in the p-block (coloured yellow) are filling p-orbitals.[17]

1 2 2×1 = 2 elements
H He 1s

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2×(1+3) = 8 elements
Li Be B C N O F Ne 2s 2p

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 2×(1+3) = 8 elements
Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar 3s 3p

Starting the next row, for potassium and calcium the 4s subshell is the lowest in energy, and therefore they fill it.[42][61] Potassium adds one electron to the 4s shell
([Ar] 4s1), and calcium then completes it ([Ar] 4s2). However, starting from scandium ([Ar] 3d1 4s2) the 3d subshell becomes the next highest in energy. The 4s
and 3d subshells have approximately the same energy and they compete for filling the electrons, and so the occupation is not quite consistently filling the 3d
orbitals one at a time. The precise energy ordering of 3d and 4s changes along the row, and also changes depending on how many electrons are removed from the
atom. For example, due to the repulsion between the 3d electrons and the 4s ones, at chromium the 4s energy level becomes slightly higher than 3d, and so it
becomes more profitable for a chromium atom to have a [Ar] 3d5 4s1 configuration than an [Ar] 3d4 4s2 one. A similar anomaly occurs at copper, whose atom has
a [Ar] 3d10 4s1 configuration rather than the expected [Ar] 3d9 4s2.[42] These are violations of the Madelung rule. Such anomalies, however, do not have any
chemical significance:[55] most chemistry is not about isolated gaseous atoms,[63] and the various configurations are so close in energy to each other[53] that the
presence of a nearby atom can shift the balance.[42] Therefore, the periodic table ignores them and considers only idealised configurations.[41]

At zinc ([Ar] 3d10 4s2), the 3d orbitals are completely filled with a total of ten electrons.[42][61] Next come the 4p orbitals, completing the row, which are filled
progressively by gallium ([Ar] 3d10 4s2 4p1) through krypton ([Ar] 3d10 4s2 4p6), in a manner analogous to the previous p-block elements.[42][61] From gallium
onwards, the 3d orbitals form part of the electronic core, and no longer participate in chemistry.[60] The s- and p-block elements, which fill their outer shells, are
called main-group elements; the d-block elements (coloured blue below), which fill an inner shell, are called transition elements (or transition metals, since they
are all metals).[64]

The next eighteen elements fill the 5s orbitals (rubidium and strontium), then 4d (yttrium through cadmium, again with a few anomalies along the way), and then
5p (indium through xenon).[17][61] Again, from indium onward the 4d orbitals are in the core.[61][65] Hence the fifth row has the same structure as the fourth.[17]

1 2 2×1 = 2 elements
H He 1s

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2×(1+3) = 8 elements
Li Be B C N O F Ne 2s 2p

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 2×(1+3) = 8 elements
Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar 3s 3p

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 2×(1+3+5) = 18 elements
K Ca Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br Kr 4s 3d 4p

37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 2×(1+3+5) = 18 elements
Rb Sr Y Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn Sb Te I Xe 5s 4d 5p

The sixth row of the table likewise starts with two s-block elements: caesium and barium.[61] After this, the first f-block elements (coloured green below) begin to
appear, starting with lanthanum. These are sometimes termed inner transition elements.[64] As there are now not only 4f but also 5d and 6s subshells at similar
energies, competition occurs once again with many irregular configurations;[53] this resulted in some dispute about where exactly the f-block is supposed to begin,
but most who study the matter agree that it starts at lanthanum in accordance with the Aufbau principle.[14] Even though lanthanum does not itself fill the 4f
subshell as a single atom, because of repulsion between electrons,[55] its 4f orbitals are low enough in energy to participate in chemistry.[66][56][67] At ytterbium,
the seven 4f orbitals are completely filled with fourteen electrons; thereafter, a series of ten transition elements (lutetium through mercury) follows,[61][68][69][70]
and finally six main-group elements (thallium through radon) complete the period.[61][71] From lutetium onwards the 4f orbitals are in the core,[61][67] and from
thallium onwards so are the 5d orbitals.[61][60][72]

The seventh row is analogous to the sixth row: 7s fills (francium and radium), then 5f (actinium to nobelium), then 6d (lawrencium to copernicium), and finally 7p
(nihonium to oganesson).[61] Starting from lawrencium the 5f orbitals are in the core,[61] and probably the 6d orbitals join the core starting from nihonium.[61][73]
[j] Again there are a few anomalies along the way:[17] for example, as single atoms neither actinium nor thorium actually fills the 5f subshell, and lawrencium does

not fill the 6d shell, but all these subshells can still become filled in chemical environments.[75][76][77] For a very long time, the seventh row was incomplete as
most of its elements do not occur in nature. The missing elements beyond uranium started to be synthesised in the laboratory in 1940, when neptunium was
made.[78] (However, the first element to be discovered by synthesis rather than in nature was technetium in 1937.) The row was completed with the synthesis of
tennessine in 2010[79] (the last element oganesson had already been made in 2002),[80] and the last elements in this seventh row were given names in 2016.[81]
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H

3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Li Be B C N O F

11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Na Mg Al Si P S Cl

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35
K Ca Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br

37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53
Rb Sr Y Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn Sb Te I

55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85
Cs Ba La Ce Pr Nd Pm Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb Lu Hf Ta W Re Os Ir Pt Au Hg Tl Pb Bi Po At

87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117
Fr Ra Ac Th Pa U Np Pu Am Cm Bk Cf Es Fm Md No Lr Rf Db Sg Bh Hs Mt Ds Rg Cn Nh Fl Mc Lv Ts

This completes the modern periodic table, with all seven rows completely filled to capacity.[81]

Electron configuration table

The following table shows the electron configuration of a neutral gas-phase atom of each element. Different configurations can be favoured in different chemical
environments.[55] The main-group elements have entirely regular electron configurations; the transition and inner transition elements show twenty irregularities
due to the aforementioned competition between subshells close in energy level. For the last ten elements (109–118), experimental data is lacking[82] and therefore
calculated configurations have been shown instead.[83] Completely filled subshells have been greyed out.

Electron configurations of the chemical elements (neutral gaseous atoms in the ground state; predictions for elements 109–118) [hide]
Group: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
1 2
H He
1s: 1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
[He] Li Be B C N O F Ne
2s: 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
2p: - - 1 2 3 4 5 6
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
[Ne] Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar
3s: 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
3p: - - 1 2 3 4 5 6
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
[Ar] K Ca Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br Kr
4s: 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
3d: - - 1 2 3 5 5 6 7 8 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
4p: - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 2 3 4 5 6
37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54
[Kr] Rb Sr Y Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn Sb Te I Xe
5s: 1 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 - 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
4d: - - 1 2 4 5 5 7 8 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
5p: - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 2 3 4 5 6
55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86
[Xe] Cs Ba La Ce Pr Nd Pm Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb Lu Hf Ta W Re Os Ir Pt Au Hg Tl Pb Bi Po At Rn
6s: 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
4f: - - - 1 3 4 5 6 7 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14
5d: - - 1 1 - - - - - 1 - - - - - - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
6p: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 2 3 4 5 6
87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118
[Rn] Fr Ra Ac Th Pa U Np Pu Am Cm Bk Cf Es Fm Md No Lr Rf Db Sg Bh Hs Mt Ds Rg Cn Nh Fl Mc Lv Ts Og
7s: 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
5f: - - - - 2 3 4 6 7 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14
6d: - - 1 2 1 1 1 - - 1 - - - - - - - 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
7p: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - 1 2 3 4 5 6
s-block f-block d-block p-block

Variations

Period 1
Although the modern periodic table is standard today, the placement of the period 1 elements hydrogen and helium remains an open issue under discussion, and
some variation can be found.[60][84] Following their respective s1 and s2 electron configurations, hydrogen would be placed in group 1, and helium would be placed
in group 2.[60] The group 1 placement of hydrogen is common, but helium is almost always placed in group 18 with the other noble gases.[20] The debate has to do
with conflicting understandings of the extent to which chemical or electronic properties should decide periodic table placement.[84]

Like the group 1 metals, hydrogen has one electron in its outermost shell[85] and typically loses its only electron in chemical reactions.[86] Hydrogen has some
metal-like chemical properties, being able to displace some metals from their salts.[86] But it forms a diatomic nonmetallic gas at standard conditions, unlike the
alkali metals which are reactive solid metals. This and hydrogen's formation of hydrides, in which it gains an electron, brings it close to the properties of the
halogens which do the same[86] (though it is rarer for hydrogen to form H− than H+).[87] Moreover, the lightest two halogens (fluorine and chlorine) are gaseous
like hydrogen at standard conditions.[86] Some properties of hydrogen are not a good fit for either group: hydrogen is neither highly oxidising nor highly reducing
and is not reactive with water.[87] Hydrogen thus has properties corresponding to both those of the alkali metals and the halogens, but matches neither group
perfectly, and is thus difficult to place by its chemistry.[86] Therefore, while the electronic placement of hydrogen in group 1 predominates, some rarer
arrangements show either hydrogen in group 17,[88] duplicate hydrogen in both groups 1 and 17,[89][90] or float it separately from all groups.[90][91][60] This last
option has nonetheless been criticised by the chemist and philosopher of science Eric Scerri on the grounds that it appears to imply that hydrogen is above the
periodic law altogether, unlike all the other elements.[92]

Helium is the only element that routinely occupies a position in the periodic table that is not consistent with its electronic structure. It has two electrons in its
outermost shell, whereas the other noble gases have eight; and it is an s-block element, whereas all other noble gases are p-block elements. However it is
unreactive at standard conditions, and has a full outer shell: these properties are like the noble gases in group 18, but not at all like the reactive alkaline earth
metals of group 2. For these reasons helium is nearly universally placed in group 18[20] which its properties best match;[60] a proposal to move helium to group 2
was rejected by IUPAC in 1988 for these reasons.[10] Nonetheless, helium is still occasionally placed in group 2 today,[93] and some of its physical and chemical
properties are closer to the group 2 elements and support the electronic placement.[85][60] Solid helium crystallises in a hexagonal close-packed structure, which
matches beryllium and magnesium in group 2, but not the other noble gases in group 18.[94] Recent theoretical developments in noble gas chemistry, in which
helium is expected to show slightly less inertness than neon and to form (HeO)(LiF)2 with a structure similar to the analogous beryllium compound (but with no
expected neon analogue), have resulted in more chemists advocating a placement of helium in group 2. This relates to the electronic argument, as the reason for
neon's greater inertness is repulsion from its filled p-shell that helium lacks, though realistically it is unlikely that helium-containing molecules will be stable
outside extreme low-temperature conditions (around 10 K).[95][96][97][98]

The first-row anomaly in the periodic table has additionally been cited to support moving helium to group 2. It arises because the first orbital of any type is
unusually small, since unlike its higher analogues, it does not experience interelectronic repulsion from a smaller orbital of the same type. This makes the first row
of elements in each block unusually small, and such elements tend to exhibit characteristic kinds of anomalies for their group. Some chemists arguing for the
repositioning of helium have pointed out that helium exhibits these anomalies if it is placed in group 2, but not if it is placed in group 18: on the other hand, neon,
which would be the first group 18 element if helium was removed from that spot, does exhibit those anomalies.[95] The relationship between helium and beryllium
is then argued to resemble that between hydrogen and lithium, a placement which is much more commonly accepted.[96] For example, because of this trend in the
sizes of orbitals, a large difference in atomic radii between the first and second members of each main group is seen in groups 1 and 13–17: it exists between neon
and argon, and between helium and beryllium, but not between helium and neon. This similarly affects the noble gases' boiling points and solubilities in water,
where helium is too close to neon, and the large difference characteristic between the first two elements of a group appears only between neon and argon. Moving
helium to group 2 makes this trend consistent in groups 2 and 18 as well, by making helium the first group 2 element and neon the first group 18 element: both
exhibit the characteristic properties of a kainosymmetric first element of a group.[99][100] The group 18 placement of helium nonetheless remains near-universal
due to its extreme inertness.[101] Additionally, tables that float both hydrogen and helium outside all groups may rarely be encountered.[91][60][61]

Group 3
In many periodic tables, the f-block is shifted one element to the right, so that lanthanum Group 3: Sc, Y, La, Ac Group 3: Sc, Y, Lu, Lr
and actinium become d-block elements in group 3, and Ce–Lu and Th–Lr form the f-block.
Thus the d-block is split into two very uneven portions. This is a holdover from early
mistaken measurements of electron configurations; modern measurements are more
consistent with the form with lutetium and lawrencium in group 3, and with La–Yb and Ac– Incorrect depiction of Group 3 Correct depiction of Group 3
No as the f-block.[12][102]

The 4f shell is completely filled at ytterbium, and for that reason Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz in 1948 considered it incorrect to group lutetium as an f-block
element.[13] They did not yet take the step of removing lanthanum from the d-block as well, but Jun Kondō realised in 1963 that lanthanum's low-temperature
superconductivity implied the activity of its 4f shell.[103] In 1965, David C. Hamilton linked this observation to its position in the periodic table, and argued that
the f-block should be composed of the elements La–Yb and Ac–No.[66] Since then, physical, chemical, and electronic evidence has supported this assignment.[12]
[10][102] The issue was brought to wide attention by William B. Jensen in 1982,[12] and the reassignment of lutetium and lawrencium to group 3 was supported by

IUPAC reports dating from 1988 (when the 1–18 group numbers were recommended)[10] and 2021.[11] The variation nonetheless still exists because most textbook
writers are not aware of the issue.[12]

A third form can sometimes be encountered in which the spaces below yttrium in group 3 are left empty, such as the table appearing on the IUPAC web site,[20]
but this creates an inconsistency with quantum mechanics by making the f-block 15 elements wide (La–Lu and Ac–Lr) even though only 14 electrons can fit in an
f-subshell.[11] There is moreover some confusion in the literature on which elements are then implied to be in group 3.[11][21][104][105][106] While the 2021 IUPAC
report noted that 15-element-wide f-blocks are supported by some practitioners of a specialised branch of relativistic quantum mechanics focusing on the
properties of superheavy elements, the project's opinion was that such interest-dependent concerns should not have any bearing on how the periodic table is
presented to "the general chemical and scientific community".[11] Other authors focusing on superheavy elements since clarified that the "15th entry of the f-block
represents the first slot of the d-block which is left vacant to indicate the place of the f-block inserts", which would imply that this form still has lutetium and
lawrencium (the 15th entries in question) as d-block elements in group 3.[107] Indeed, when IUPAC publications expand the table to 32 columns, they make this
clear and place lutetium and lawrencium under yttrium in group 3.[108][109]

Several arguments in favour of Sc-Y-La-Ac can be encountered in the literature,[110][111] but they have been challenged as being logically inconsistent.[14][15][16] For
example, it has been argued that lanthanum and actinium cannot be f-block elements because as individual gas-phase atoms, they have not begun to fill the f-
subshells.[112] But the same is true of thorium which is never disputed as an f-block element,[11][12] and this argument overlooks the problem on the other end: that
the f-shells complete filling at ytterbium and nobelium, matching the Sc-Y-Lu-Lr form, and not at lutetium and lawrencium as the Sc-Y-La-Ac form would have it.
[113] Not only are such exceptional configurations in the minority,[113] but they have also in any case never been considered as relevant for positioning any other

elements on the periodic table: in gaseous atoms, the d-shells complete their filling at copper, palladium, and gold, but it is universally accepted by chemists that
these configurations are exceptional and that the d-block really ends in accordance with the Madelung rule at zinc, cadmium, and mercury.[21] The relevant fact
for placement[41][68] is that lanthanum and actinium (like thorium) have valence f-orbitals that can become occupied in chemical environments, whereas lutetium
and lawrencium do not:[61][114][77] their f-shells are in the core, and cannot be used for chemical reactions.[67][115] Thus the relationship between yttrium and
lanthanum is only a secondary relationship between elements with the same number of valence electrons but different kinds of valence orbitals, such as that
between chromium and uranium; whereas the relationship between yttrium and lutetium is primary, sharing both valence electron count and valence orbital type.
[61]

Periodic trends
As chemical reactions involve the valence electrons,[19] elements with similar outer electron configurations may be expected to react similarly and form
compounds with similar proportions of elements in them.[116] Such elements are placed in the same group, and thus there tend to be clear similarities and trends
in chemical behaviour as one proceeds down a group.[117] As analogous configurations occur at regular intervals, the properties of the elements thus exhibit
periodic recurrences, hence the name of the periodic table and the periodic law. These periodic recurrences were noticed well before the underlying theory that
explains them was developed.[118][119]

Atomic radius
Historically, the physical size of atoms was unknown until the early 20th century. The first calculated estimate of the atomic radius of hydrogen was published by
physicist Arthur Haas in 1910 to within an order of magnitude (a factor of 10) of the accepted value, the Bohr radius (~0.529 Å). In his model, Haas used a single-
electron configuration based on the classical atomic model proposed by J. J. Thomson in 1904, often called the plum-pudding model.[120]

Atomic radii (the size of atoms) are dependent on the sizes of their outermost orbitals.[99] They generally decrease going left to right along the main-group
elements, because the nuclear charge increases but the outer electrons are still in the same shell. However, going down a column, the radii generally increase,
because the outermost electrons are in higher shells that are thus further away from the nucleus.[19][121] The first row of each block is abnormally small, due to an
effect called kainosymmetry or primogenic repulsion:[122] the 1s, 2p, 3d, and 4f subshells have no inner analogues. For example, the 2p orbitals do not experience
strong repulsion from the 1s and 2s orbitals, which have quite different angular charge distributions, and hence are not very large; but the 3p orbitals experience
strong repulsion from the 2p orbitals, which have similar angular charge distributions. Thus higher s-, p-, d-, and f-subshells experience strong repulsion from
their inner analogues, which have approximately the same angular distribution of charge, and must expand to avoid this. This makes significant differences arise
between the small 2p elements, which prefer multiple bonding, and the larger 3p and higher p-elements, which do not.[99] Similar anomalies arise for the 1s, 2p,
3d, 4f, and the hypothetical 5g elements:[123] the degree of this first-row anomaly is highest for the s-block, is moderate for the p-block, and is less pronounced for
the d- and f-blocks.[124]

In the transition elements, an inner shell is filling, but the size of the atom is still determined by the outer electrons. The increasing nuclear charge across the
series and the increased number of inner electrons for shielding somewhat compensate each other, so the decrease in radius is smaller.[121] The 4p and 5d atoms,
coming immediately after new types of transition series are first introduced, are smaller than would have been expected,[125] because the added core 3d and 4f
subshells provide only incomplete shielding of the nuclear charge for the outer electrons. Hence for example gallium atoms are slightly smaller than aluminium
atoms.[99] Together with kainosymmetry, this results in an even-odd difference between the periods (except in the s-block)[k] that is sometimes known as
secondary periodicity: elements in even periods have smaller atomic radii and prefer to lose fewer electrons, while elements in odd periods (except the first) differ
in the opposite direction. Thus for example many properties in the p-block show a zigzag rather than a smooth trend along the group. For example, phosphorus
and antimony in odd periods of group 15 readily reach the +5 oxidation state, whereas nitrogen, arsenic, and bismuth in even periods prefer to stay at +3.[124][126]
A similar situation holds for the d-block, with lutetium through tungsten atoms being slightly smaller than yttrium through molybdenum atoms respectively.[127]
[128]

Thallium and lead atoms are about the same size as indium and tin atoms respectively, but from bismuth to radon the 6p
atoms are larger than the analogous 5p atoms. This happens because when atomic nuclei become highly charged, special
relativity becomes needed to gauge the effect of the nucleus on the electron cloud. These relativistic effects result in heavy
elements increasingly having differing properties compared to their lighter homologues in the periodic table. Spin–orbit
interaction splits the p-subshell: one p-orbital is relativistically stabilised and shrunken (it fills in thallium and lead), but the
other two (filling in bismuth through radon) are relativistically destabilised and expanded.[99] Relativistic effects also explain
why gold is golden and mercury is a liquid at room temperature.[129][130] They are expected to become very strong in the late
seventh period, potentially leading to a collapse of periodicity.[131] Electron configurations are only clearly known until
element 108 (hassium), and experimental chemistry beyond 108 has only been done for 112 (copernicium), 113 (nihonium),
and 114 (flerovium), so the chemical characterisation of the heaviest elements remains a topic of current research.[132]

The trend that atomic radii decrease from left to right is also present in ionic radii, though it is more difficult to examine
because the most common ions of consecutive elements normally differ in charge. Ions with the same electron configuration Liquid mercury. Its liquid state at
decrease in size as their atomic number rises, due to increased attraction from the more positively charged nucleus: thus for standard conditions is the result of
example ionic radii decrease in the series Se2−, Br−, Rb+, Sr2+, Y3+, Zr4+, Nb5+, Mo6+, Tc7+. Ions of the same element get relativistic effects.[129]
smaller as more electrons are removed, because the attraction from the nucleus begins to outweigh the repulsion between
electrons that causes electron clouds to expand: thus for example ionic radii decrease in the series V2+, V3+, V4+, V5+.[133]

Ionisation energy
The first ionisation energy of an atom is the energy required to remove an electron
from it. This varies with the atomic radius: ionisation energy increases left to right
and down to up, because electrons that are closer to the nucleus are held more tightly
and are more difficult to remove. Ionisation energy thus is minimised at the first
element of each period – hydrogen and the alkali metals – and then generally rises
until it reaches the noble gas at the right edge of the period.[19] There are some
exceptions to this trend, such as oxygen, where the electron being removed is paired
and thus interelectronic repulsion makes it easier to remove than expected.[134]

In the transition series, the outer electrons are preferentially lost even though the
Graph of first ionisation energies of the elements in electronvolts (predictions used for
inner orbitals are filling. For example, in the 3d series, the 4s electrons are lost first
elements 109–118)
even though the 3d orbitals are being filled. The shielding effect of adding an extra 3d
electron approximately compensates the rise in nuclear charge, and therefore the
ionisation energies stay mostly constant, though there is a small increase especially at the end of each transition series.[135]

As metal atoms tend to lose electrons in chemical reactions, ionisation energy is generally correlated with chemical reactivity, although there are other factors
involved as well.[135]

Electron affinity
The opposite property to ionisation energy is the electron affinity, which is the energy released when
adding an electron to the atom.[136] A passing electron will be more readily attracted to an atom if it
feels the pull of the nucleus more strongly, and especially if there is an available partially filled outer
orbital that can accommodate it. Therefore, electron affinity tends to increase down to up and left to
right. The exception is the last column, the noble gases, which have a full shell and have no room for
another electron. This gives the halogens in the next-to-last column the highest electron affinities.[19]

Some atoms, like the noble gases, have no electron affinity: they cannot form stable gas-phase anions.
[137] (They can form metastable resonances if the incoming electron arrives with enough kinetic energy,

but these inevitably and rapidly autodetach: for example, the lifetime of the most long-lived He− level is
about 359 microseconds.)[138] The noble gases, having high ionisation energies and no electron affinity, Trend in electron affinities
have little inclination towards gaining or losing electrons and are generally unreactive.[19]

Some exceptions to the trends occur: oxygen and fluorine have lower electron affinities than their heavier homologues sulfur and chlorine, because they are small
atoms and hence the newly added electron would experience significant repulsion from the already present ones. For the nonmetallic elements, electron affinity
likewise somewhat correlates with reactivity, but not perfectly since other factors are involved. For example, fluorine has a lower electron affinity than chlorine
(because of extreme interelectronic repulsion for the very small fluorine atom), but is more reactive.[136]

Valence and oxidation states

The valence of an element can be defined either as the number of hydrogen atoms that can combine with it to form a
simple binary hydride, or as twice the number of oxygen atoms that can combine with it to form a simple binary oxide
(that is, not a peroxide or a superoxide).[113] The valences of the main-group elements are directly related to the group
number: the hydrides in the main groups 1–2 and 13–17 follow the formulae MH, MH2, MH3, MH4, MH3, MH2, and
finally MH. The highest oxides instead increase in valence, following the formulae M2O, MO, M2O3, MO2, M2O5, MO3,
M2O7.[l] Today the notion of valence has been extended by that of the oxidation state, which is the formal charge left on an Lead(II) oxide (PbO, left) and lead(IV)
element when all other elements in a compound have been removed as their ions.[116] oxide (PbO2, right), the two stable
oxides of lead
The electron configuration suggests a ready explanation from the number of electrons available for bonding;[116] indeed,
the number of valence electrons starts at 1 in group 1, and then increases towards the right side of the periodic table, only
resetting at 3 whenever each new block starts. Thus in period 6, Cs–Ba have 1–2 valence electrons; La–Yb have 3–16; Lu–Hg have 3–12; and Tl–Rn have 3–8.[115]
However, towards the right side of the d- and f-blocks, the theoretical maximum corresponding to using all valence electrons is not achievable at all;[139] the same
situation affects oxygen, fluorine, and the light noble gases up to krypton.[140]

Number of valence electrons

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

H He
1
1 2

Li Be B C N O F Ne
2
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar
3
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

K Ca Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br Kr
4
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8

Rb Sr Y Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn Sb Te I Xe
5
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8

Cs Ba La Ce Pr Nd Pm Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb Lu Hf Ta W Re Os Ir Pt Au Hg Tl Pb Bi Po At Rn
6
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8

Fr Ra Ac Th Pa U Np Pu Am Cm Bk Cf Es Fm Md No Lr Rf Db Sg Bh Hs Mt Ds Rg Cn Nh Fl Mc Lv Ts Og
7
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8

A full explanation requires considering the energy that would be released in forming compounds with different valences rather than simply considering electron
configurations alone.[141] For example, magnesium forms Mg2+ rather than Mg+ cations when dissolved in water, because the latter would spontaneously
disproportionate into Mg0 and Mg2+ cations. This is because the enthalpy of hydration (surrounding the cation with water molecules) increases in magnitude with
the charge and radius of the ion. In Mg+, the outermost orbital (which determines ionic radius) is still 3s, so the hydration enthalpy is small and insufficient to
compensate the energy required to remove the electron; but ionising again to Mg2+ uncovers the core 2p subshell, making the hydration enthalpy large enough to
allow magnesium(II) compounds to form. For similar reasons, the common oxidation states of the heavier p-block elements (where the ns electrons become lower
in energy than the np) tend to vary by steps of 2, because that is necessary to uncover an inner subshell and decrease the ionic radius (e.g. Tl+ uncovers 6s, and
Tl3+ uncovers 5d, so once thallium loses two electrons it tends to lose the third one as well). Analogous arguments based on orbital hybridisation can be used for
the less electronegative p-block elements.[142][m]

Oxidation states of the transition metals. The solid dots show common oxidation states, and the hollow dots show possible but unlikely
states.

For transition metals, common oxidation states are nearly always at least +2 for similar reasons (uncovering the next subshell); this holds even for the metals with
anomalous dx+1s1 or dx+2s0 configurations (except for silver), because repulsion between d-electrons means that the movement of the second electron from the s-
to the d-subshell does not appreciably change its ionisation energy.[144] Because ionising the transition metals further does not uncover any new inner subshells,
their oxidation states tend to vary by steps of 1 instead.[142] The lanthanides and late actinides generally show a stable +3 oxidation state, removing the outer s-
electrons and then (usually) one electron from the (n−2)f-orbitals, that are similar in energy to ns.[145] The common and maximum oxidation states of the d- and
f-block elements tend to depend on the ionisation energies. As the energy difference between the (n−1)d and ns orbitals rises along each transition series, it
becomes less energetically favourable to ionise further electrons. Thus, the early transition metal groups tend to prefer higher oxidation states, but the +2
oxidation state becomes more stable for the late transition metal groups. The highest formal oxidation state thus increases from +3 at the beginning of each d-
block row, to +7 or +8 in the middle (e.g. OsO4), and then decrease to +2 at the end.[144] The lanthanides and late actinides usually have high fourth ionisation
energies and hence rarely surpass the +3 oxidation state, whereas early actinides have low fourth ionisation energies and so for example neptunium and
plutonium can reach +7.[113][144][145] The very last actinides go further than the lanthanides towards low oxidation states: mendelevium is more easily reduced to
the +2 state than thulium or even europium (the lanthanide with the most stable +2 state, on account of its half-filled f-shell), and nobelium outright favours +2
over +3, in contrast to ytterbium.[57]
As elements in the same group share the same valence configurations, they usually exhibit similar chemical behaviour. For example, the alkali metals in the first
group all have one valence electron, and form a very homogeneous class of elements: they are all soft and reactive metals. However, there are many factors
involved, and groups can often be rather heterogeneous. For instance, hydrogen also has one valence electron and is in the same group as the alkali metals, but its
chemical behaviour is quite different. The stable elements of group 14 comprise a nonmetal (carbon), two semiconductors (silicon and germanium), and two
metals (tin and lead); they are nonetheless united by having four valence electrons.[146] This often leads to similarities in maximum and minimum oxidation states
(e.g. sulfur and selenium in group 16 both have maximum oxidation state +6, as in SO3 and SeO3, and minimum oxidation state −2, as in sulfides and selenides);
but not always (e.g. oxygen is not known to form oxidation state +6, despite being in the same group as sulfur and selenium).[61]

Electronegativity
Another important property of elements is their electronegativity. Atoms can form covalent bonds to each
other by sharing electrons in pairs, creating an overlap of valence orbitals. The degree to which each atom
attracts the shared electron pair depends on the atom's electronegativity[147] – the tendency of an atom
towards gaining or losing electrons.[19] The more electronegative atom will tend to attract the electron pair
more, and the less electronegative (or more electropositive) one will attract it less. In extreme cases, the Electrostatic potential map of a water molecule, where
electron can be thought of as having been passed completely from the more electropositive atom to the more the oxygen atom has a more negative charge (red)
electronegative one, though this is a simplification. The bond then binds two ions, one positive (having given than the positive (blue) hydrogen atoms
up the electron) and one negative (having accepted it), and is termed an ionic bond.[19]

Electronegativity depends on how strongly the nucleus can attract an electron pair, and so it exhibits a similar variation to the other properties already discussed:
electronegativity tends to fall going up to down, and rise going left to right. The alkali and alkaline earth metals are among the most electropositive elements, while
the chalcogens, halogens, and noble gases are among the most electronegative ones.[147]

Electronegativity is generally measured on the Pauling scale, on which the most electronegative reactive atom (fluorine) is given electronegativity 4.0, and the
least electronegative atom (caesium) is given electronegativity 0.79.[19] In fact neon is the most electronegative element, but the Pauling scale cannot measure its
electronegativity because it does not form covalent bonds with most elements.[148]

An element's electronegativity varies with the identity and number of the atoms it is bonded to, as well as how many electrons it has already lost: an atom becomes
more electronegative when it has lost more electrons.[147] This sometimes makes a large difference: lead in the +2 oxidation state has electronegativity 1.87 on the
Pauling scale, while lead in the +4 oxidation state has electronegativity 2.33.[149]

Metallicity
A simple substance is a substance formed from atoms of one chemical element. The simple substances of the more
electronegative atoms tend to share electrons (form covalent bonds) with each other. They form either small molecules (like
hydrogen or oxygen, whose atoms bond in pairs) or giant structures stretching indefinitely (like carbon or silicon). The noble
gases simply stay as single atoms, as they already have a full shell.[19] Substances composed of discrete molecules or single
atoms are held together by weaker attractive forces between the molecules, such as the London dispersion force: as electrons
move within the molecules, they create momentary imbalances of electrical charge, which induce similar imbalances on nearby
molecules and create synchronised movements of electrons across many neighbouring molecules.[151]

The more electropositive atoms, however, tend to instead lose electrons, creating a "sea" of electrons engulfing cations.[19] The
The diamond-cubic structure, a giant
outer orbitals of one atom overlap to share electrons with all its neighbours, creating a giant structure of molecular orbitals covalent structure adopted by
extending over all the atoms.[152] This negatively charged "sea" pulls on all the ions and keeps them together in a metallic carbon (as diamond), as well as by
bond. Elements forming such bonds are often called metals; those which do not are often called nonmetals.[19] Some elements silicon, germanium, and (grey) tin,
can form multiple simple substances with different structures: these are called allotropes. For example, diamond and graphite all in group 14.
are two allotropes of carbon.[146][n] (In grey tin, the band gap vanishes
and metallisation occurs.[150] Tin
The metallicity of an element can be predicted from electronic properties. When atomic orbitals overlap during metallic or has another allotrope, white tin,
whose structure is even more
covalent bonding, they create both bonding and antibonding molecular orbitals of equal capacity, with the antibonding orbitals
metallic.)
of higher energy. Net bonding character occurs when there are more electrons in the bonding orbitals than there are in the
antibonding orbitals. Metallic bonding is thus possible when the number of electrons delocalised by each atom is less than
twice the number of orbitals contributing to the overlap. This is the situation for elements in groups 1 through 13; they also
have too few valence electrons to form giant covalent structures where all atoms take equivalent positions, and so almost all of
them metallise. The exceptions are hydrogen and boron, which have too high an ionisation energy. Hydrogen thus forms a
covalent H2 molecule, and boron forms a giant covalent structure based on icosahedral B12 clusters. In a metal, the bonding
and antibonding orbitals have overlapping energies, creating a single band that electrons can freely flow through, allowing for
electrical conduction.[154]

In group 14, both metallic and covalent bonding become possible. In a diamond crystal, covalent bonds between carbon atoms Graphite and diamond, two
allotropes of carbon
are strong, because they have a small atomic radius and thus the nucleus has more of a hold on the electrons. Therefore, the
bonding orbitals that result are much lower in energy than the antibonding orbitals, and there is no overlap, so electrical
conduction becomes impossible: carbon is a nonmetal. However, covalent bonding becomes weaker for larger atoms and the energy gap between the bonding and
antibonding orbitals decreases. Therefore, silicon and germanium have smaller band gaps and are semiconductors at ambient conditions: electrons can cross the
gap when thermally excited. (Boron is also a semiconductor at ambient conditions.) The band gap disappears in tin, so that tin and lead become metals.[154] As the
temperature rises, all nonmetals develop some semiconducting properties, to a greater or lesser extent depending on the size of the band gap. Thus metals and
nonmetals may be distinguished by the temperature dependence of their electrical conductivity: a metal's conductivity lowers as temperature rises (because
thermal motion makes it more difficult for the electrons to flow freely), whereas a nonmetal's conductivity rises (as more electrons may be excited to cross the
gap).[155]

Elements in groups 15 through 17 have too many electrons to form giant covalent molecules that stretch in all three dimensions. For the lighter elements, the
bonds in small diatomic molecules are so strong that a condensed phase is disfavoured: thus nitrogen (N2), oxygen (O2), white phosphorus and yellow arsenic (P4
and As4), sulfur and red selenium (S8 and Se8), and the stable halogens (F2, Cl2, Br2, and I2) readily form covalent molecules with few atoms. The heavier ones
tend to form long chains (e.g. red phosphorus, grey selenium, tellurium) or layered structures (e.g. carbon as graphite, black phosphorus, grey arsenic, antimony,
bismuth) that only extend in one or two rather than three dimensions. Both kinds of structures can be found as allotropes of phosphorus, arsenic, and selenium,
although the long-chained allotropes are more stable in all three. As these structures do not use all their orbitals for bonding, they end up with bonding,
nonbonding, and antibonding bands in order of increasing energy. Similarly to group 14, the band gaps shrink for the heavier elements and free movement of
electrons between the chains or layers becomes possible. Thus for example black phosphorus, black arsenic, grey selenium, tellurium, and iodine are
semiconductors; grey arsenic, antimony, and bismuth are semimetals (exhibiting quasi-metallic conduction, with a very small band overlap); and polonium and
probably astatine are true metals.[154] Finally, the natural group 18 elements all stay as
individual atoms.[154][o]

The dividing line between metals and nonmetals is roughly diagonal from top left to bottom
right, with the transition series appearing to the left of this diagonal (as they have many
available orbitals for overlap). This is expected, as metallicity tends to be correlated with
electropositivity and the willingness to lose electrons, which increases right to left and up to
down. Thus the metals greatly outnumber the nonmetals. Elements near the borderline are
difficult to classify: they tend to have properties that are intermediate between those of metals
and nonmetals, and may have some properties characteristic of both. They are often termed
semimetals or metalloids.[19] The term "semimetal" used in this sense should not be confused Graph of carbon atoms being brought together to form a diamond crystal,
with its strict physical sense having to do with band structure: bismuth is physically a demonstrating formation of the electronic band structure and band gap.
semimetal, but is generally considered a metal by chemists.[157] The right graph shows the energy levels as a function of the spacing
between atoms. When far apart (right side of graph) all the atoms have
The following table considers the most stable allotropes at standard conditions. The elements discrete valence orbitals p and s with the same energies. However, when
coloured yellow form simple substances that are well-characterised by metallic bonding. the atoms come closer (left side), their electron orbitals begin to spatially
Elements coloured light blue form giant network covalent structures, whereas those coloured overlap. The Pauli exclusion principle prohibits them from having the
dark blue form small covalently bonded molecules that are held together by weaker van der same energy, so the orbitals hybridize into N molecular orbitals each with
a different energy, where N is the number of atoms in the crystal. Since N
Waals forces. The noble gases are coloured in violet: their molecules are single atoms and no
is such a large number, adjacent orbitals are extremely close together in
covalent bonding occurs. Greyed-out cells are for elements which have not been prepared in energy so the orbitals can be considered a continuous energy band. At
sufficient quantities for their most stable allotropes to have been characterised in this way. the actual diamond crystal cell size (denoted by a), two bands are formed,
Theoretical considerations and current experimental evidence suggest that all of those elements called the valence and conduction bands, separated by a 5.5 eV band
would metallise if they could form condensed phases,[154] except perhaps for oganesson.[158][p] gap. (Here only the valence 2s and 2p electrons have been illustrated; the
1s orbitals do not significantly overlap, so the bands formed from them
are much narrower.)

Bonding of simple substances in the periodic table [hide]

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Group →
↓ Period
1 H He
2 Li Be B C N O F Ne
3 Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar
4 K Ca Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br Kr
5 Rb Sr Y Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn Sb Te I Xe
6 Cs Ba La Ce Pr Nd Pm Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb Lu Hf Ta W Re Os Ir Pt Au Hg Tl Pb Bi Po At Rn
7 Fr Ra Ac Th Pa U Np Pu Am Cm Bk Cf Es Fm Md No Lr Rf Db Sg Bh Hs Mt Ds Rg Cn Nh Fl Mc Lv Ts Og

Metallic Network covalent Molecular covalent Single atoms Unknown

Background color shows bonding of simple substances in the periodic table. If there are several, the most stable allotrope is considered.

Iron, a metal Sulfur, a nonmetal Arsenic, an element often

called a semi-metal or
metalloid

Generally, metals are shiny and dense.[19] They usually have high melting and boiling points due to the strength of the metallic bond, and are often malleable and
ductile (easily stretched and shaped) because the atoms can move relative to each other without breaking the metallic bond.[168] They conduct electricity because
their electrons are free to move in all three dimensions. Similarly, they conduct heat, which is transferred by the electrons as extra kinetic energy: they move
faster. These properties persist in the liquid state, as although the crystal structure is destroyed on melting, the atoms still touch and the metallic bond persists,
though it is weakened.[168] Metals tend to be reactive towards nonmetals.[19] Some exceptions can be found to these generalisations: for example, beryllium,
chromium,[87] manganese,[169] antimony,[170] bismuth,[171] and uranium are brittle (not an exhaustive list);[87] chromium is extremely hard;[172] gallium,
rubidium, caesium, and mercury are liquid at or close to room temperature;[q] and noble metals such as gold are chemically very inert.[173][174]

Nonmetals exhibit different properties. Those forming giant covalent crystals exhibit high melting and boiling points, as it takes considerable energy to overcome
the strong covalent bonds. Those forming discrete molecules are held together mostly by dispersion forces, which are more easily overcome; thus they tend to have
lower melting and boiling points,[175] and many are liquids or gases at room temperature.[19] Nonmetals are often dull-looking. They tend to be reactive towards
metals, except for the noble gases, which are inert towards most substances.[19] They are brittle when solid as their atoms are held tightly in place. They are less
dense and conduct electricity poorly,[19] because there are no mobile electrons.[176] Near the borderline, band gaps are small and thus many elements in that
region are semiconductors, such as silicon, germanium,[176] and tellurium.[154] Selenium has both a semiconducting grey allotrope and an insulating red allotrope;
arsenic has a metallic grey allotrope, a semiconducting black allotrope, and an insulating yellow allotrope (though the last is unstable at ambient conditions).[155]
Again there are exceptions; for example, diamond has the highest thermal conductivity of all known materials, greater than any metal.[177]

It is common to designate a class of metalloids straddling the boundary between metals and nonmetals, as elements in that region are intermediate in both
physical and chemical properties.[19] However, no consensus exists in the literature for precisely which elements should be so designated. When such a category is
used, silicon, germanium, arsenic, and tellurium are almost always included, and boron and antimony usually are; but most sources include other elements as
well, without agreement on which extra elements should be added, and some others subtract from this list instead.[r] For example, unlike all the other elements
generally considered metalloids or nonmetals, antimony's only stable form has metallic conductivity. Moreover, the element resembles bismuth and, more
generally, the other p-block metals in its physical and chemical behaviour. On this basis some authors have argued that it is better classified as a metal than as a
metalloid.[87][182][155] On the other hand, selenium has some semiconducting properties in its most stable form (though it also has insulating allotropes) and it has
been argued that it should be considered a metalloid[182] – though this situation also holds for phosphorus,[155] which is a much rarer inclusion among the
metalloids.[r]
Further manifestations of periodicity
There are some other relationships throughout the periodic table between elements that are not in the same group, such as the diagonal relationships between
elements that are diagonally adjacent (e.g. lithium and magnesium).[124] Some similarities can also be found between the main groups and the transition metal
groups, or between the early actinides and early transition metals, when the elements have the same number of valence electrons. Thus uranium somewhat
resembles chromium and tungsten in group 6,[124] as all three have six valence electrons.[183] Relationships between elements with the same number of valence
electrons but different types of valence orbital have been called secondary or isodonor relationships: they usually have the same maximum oxidation states, but
not the same minimum oxidation states. For example, chlorine and manganese both have +7 as their maximum oxidation state (e.g. Cl2O7 and Mn2O7), but their
respective minimum oxidation states are −1 (e.g. HCl) and −3 (K2[Mn(CO)4]). Elements with the same number of valence vacancies but different numbers of
valence electrons are related by a tertiary or isoacceptor relationship: they usually have similar minimum but not maximum oxidation states. For example,
hydrogen and chlorine both have −1 as their minimum oxidation state (in hydrides and chlorides), but hydrogen's maximum oxidation state is +1 (e.g. H2O) while
chlorine's is +7.[61]

Many other physical properties of the elements exhibit periodic variation in accordance with the periodic law, such as melting points, boiling points, heats of
fusion, heats of vaporisation, atomisation energy, and so on. Similar periodic variations appear for the compounds of the elements, which can be observed by
comparing hydrides, oxides, sulfides, halides, and so on.[147] Chemical properties are more difficult to describe quantitatively, but likewise exhibit their own
periodicities. Examples include the variation in the acidic and basic properties of the elements and their compounds, the stabilities of compounds, and methods of
isolating the elements.[116] Periodicity is and has been used very widely to predict the properties of unknown new elements and new compounds, and is central to
modern chemistry.[184]

Classification of elements
Many terms have been used in the literature to describe sets of elements that behave
similarly. The group names alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, triel, tetrel,
pnictogen, chalcogen, halogen, and noble gas are acknowledged by IUPAC; the other
groups can be referred to by their number, or by their first element (e.g., group 6 is
the chromium group).[9][185] Some divide the p-block elements from groups 13 to 16
by metallicity,[180][178] although there is neither an IUPAC definition nor a precise
consensus on exactly which elements should be considered metals, nonmetals, or
semi-metals (sometimes called metalloids).[180][178][9] Neither is there a consensus
on what the metals succeeding the transition metals ought to be called, with post-
transition metal and poor metal being among the possibilities having been used.
Some advanced monographs exclude the elements of group 12 from the transition
metals on the grounds of their sometimes quite different chemical properties, but
this is not a universal practice[186] and IUPAC does not presently mention it as
allowable in its Principles of Chemical Nomenclature.[187] A periodic table colour-coded to show some commonly used sets of similar elements.
The categories and their boundaries differ somewhat between sources.[178] Lutetium
The lanthanides are considered to be the elements La–Lu, which are all very similar and lawrencium in group 3 are also transition metals.[61]
to each other: historically they included only Ce–Lu, but lanthanum became included Alkali metals Other metals
by common usage.[9] The rare earth elements (or rare earth metals) add scandium Alkaline earth metals Metalloids
and yttrium to the lanthanides.[9] Analogously, the actinides are considered to be the Lanthanides Other nonmetals
elements Ac–Lr (historically Th–Lr),[9] although variation of properties in this set is Actinides Halogens
much greater than within the lanthanides.[55] IUPAC recommends the names Transition metals Noble gases
lanthanoids and actinoids to avoid ambiguity, as the -ide suffix typically denotes a
negative ion; however lanthanides and actinides remain common.[9] With the
increasing recognition of lutetium and lawrencium as d-block elements, some authors began to define the lanthanides as La–Yb and the actinides as Ac–No,
matching the f-block.[60][12][188][189][190][191] The transactinides or superheavy elements are the short-lived elements beyond the actinides, starting at lawrencium
or rutherfordium (depending on where the actinides are taken to end).[191][192][193][194][195]

Many more categorisations exist and are used according to certain disciplines. In astrophysics, a metal is defined as any element with atomic number greater than
2, i.e. anything except hydrogen and helium.[196] The term "semimetal" has a different definition in physics than it does in chemistry: bismuth is a semimetal by
physical definitions, but chemists generally consider it a metal.[197] A few terms are widely used, but without any very formal definition, such as "heavy metal",
which has been given such a wide range of definitions that it has been criticised as "effectively meaningless".[198]

The scope of terms varies significantly between authors. For example, according to IUPAC, the noble gases extend to include the whole group, including the very
radioactive superheavy element oganesson.[199] However, among those who specialise in the superheavy elements, this is not often done: in this case "noble gas" is
typically taken to imply the unreactive behaviour of the lighter elements of the group. Since calculations generally predict that oganesson should not be
particularly inert due to relativistic effects, and may not even be a gas at room temperature if it could be produced in bulk, its status as a noble gas is often
questioned in this context.[200] Furthermore, national variations are sometimes encountered: in Japan, alkaline earth metals often do not include beryllium and
magnesium as their behaviour is different from the heavier group 2 metals.[201]

History

Early history
In 1817, German physicist Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner began to formulate one of the earliest attempts to classify the elements.[202] In 1829, he found that he
could form some of the elements into groups of three, with the members of each group having related properties. He termed these groups triads.[203][204]
Chlorine, bromine, and iodine formed a triad; as did calcium, strontium, and barium; lithium, sodium, and potassium; and sulfur, selenium, and tellurium. Today,
all these triads form part of modern-day groups: the halogens, alkaline earth metals, alkali metals, and chalcogens.[205] Various chemists continued his work and
were able to identify more and more relationships between small groups of elements. However, they could not build one scheme that encompassed them all.[206]

John Newlands published a letter in the Chemical News in February 1863 on the periodicity among the chemical elements.[207] In 1864 Newlands published an
article in the Chemical News showing that if the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, those having consecutive numbers frequently either
belong to the same group or occupy similar positions in different groups, and he pointed out that each eighth element starting from a given one is in this
arrangement a kind of repetition of the first, like the eighth note of an octave in music (The Law of Octaves).[207] However, Newlands's formulation only worked
well for the main-group elements, and encountered serious problems with the others.[61]

German chemist Lothar Meyer noted the sequences of similar chemical and physical properties repeated at periodic intervals. According to him, if the atomic
weights were plotted as ordinates (i.e. vertically) and the atomic volumes as abscissas (i.e. horizontally)—the curve obtained a series of maximums and minimums
 —the most electropositive elements would appear at the peaks of the curve in the
order of their atomic weights. In 1864, a book of his was published; it contained an
early version of the periodic table containing 28 elements, and classified elements
into six families by their valence—for the first time, elements had been grouped
Newlands's table of the elements in
according to their valence. Works on organizing the elements by atomic weight had
1866.
until then been stymied by inaccurate measurements of the atomic weights.[208] In
1868, he revised his table, but this revision was published as a draft only after his
death.[209]

Mendeleev
The definitive breakthrough came from the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. Although other chemists (including
Meyer) had found some other versions of the periodic system at about the same time, Mendeleev was the most dedicated
to developing and defending his system, and it was his system that most affected the scientific community.[210] On 17
February 1869 (1 March 1869 in the Gregorian calendar), Mendeleev began arranging the elements and comparing them
by their atomic weights. He began with a few elements, and over the course of the day his system grew until it
Mendeleev's 1869 periodic table
encompassed most of the known elements. After he found a consistent arrangement, his printed table appeared in May
1869 in the journal of the Russian Chemical Society.[211] When elements did not appear to fit in the system, he boldly
predicted that either valencies or atomic weights had been measured incorrectly, or that there was a missing element yet to be
discovered.[61] In 1871, Mendeleev published a long article, including an updated form of his table, that made his predictions
for unknown elements explicit. Mendeleev predicted the properties of three of these unknown elements in detail: as they
would be missing heavier homologues of boron, aluminium, and silicon, he named them eka-boron, eka-aluminium, and eka-
silicon ("eka" being Sanskrit for "one").[211][212]: 45

In 1875, the French chemist Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, working without knowledge of Mendeleev's prediction,
discovered a new element in a sample of the mineral sphalerite, and named it gallium. He isolated the element and began
determining its properties. Mendeleev, reading de Boisbaudran's publication, sent a letter claiming that gallium was his
predicted eka-aluminium. Although Lecoq de Boisbaudran was initially sceptical, and suspected that Mendeleev was trying to
take credit for his discovery, he later admitted that Mendeleev was correct.[213] In 1879, the Swedish chemist Lars Fredrik
Nilson discovered a new element, which he named scandium: it turned out to be eka-boron. Eka-silicon was found in 1886 by
German chemist Clemens Winkler, who named it germanium. The properties of gallium, scandium, and germanium matched
what Mendeleev had predicted.[214] In 1889, Mendeleev noted at the Faraday Lecture to the Royal Institution in London that
he had not expected to live long enough "to mention their discovery to the Chemical Society of Great Britain as a confirmation
of the exactitude and generality of the periodic law".[215] Even the discovery of the noble gases at the close of the 19th century, Dmitri Mendeleev
which Mendeleev had not predicted, fitted neatly into his scheme as an eighth main group.[216]

Mendeleev nevertheless had some trouble fitting the known lanthanides into his
scheme, as they did not exhibit the periodic change in valencies that the other
elements did. After much investigation, the Czech chemist Bohuslav Brauner
suggested in 1902 that the lanthanides could all be placed together in one group on
the periodic table. He named this the "asteroid hypothesis" as an astronomical
analogy: just as there is an asteroid belt instead of a single planet between Mars and
Jupiter, so the place below yttrium was thought to be occupied by all the lanthanides
instead of just one element.[21]

Atomic number
After the internal structure of the atom was probed, amateur Dutch physicist
Antonius van den Broek proposed in 1913 that the nuclear charge determined the Mendeleev's 1871 periodic table
placement of elements in the periodic table.[217][218] The New Zealand physicist
Ernest Rutherford coined the word "atomic number" for this nuclear charge. [219] In
van der Broek's published article he illustrated the first electronic periodic table showing the elements arranged according to
the number of their electrons.[220] Rutherford confirmed in his 1914 paper that Bohr had accepted the view of van der Broek.
[221]

The same year, English physicist Henry Moseley using X-ray spectroscopy confirmed van den Broek's proposal experimentally.
Moseley determined the value of the nuclear charge of each element from aluminium to gold and showed that Mendeleev's
ordering actually places the elements in sequential order by nuclear charge.[222] Nuclear charge is identical to proton count
and determines the value of the atomic number (Z) of each element. Using atomic number gives a definitive, integer-based
sequence for the elements. Moseley's research immediately resolved discrepancies between atomic weight and chemical
Periodic table of van den Broek
properties; these were cases such as tellurium and iodine, where atomic number increases but atomic weight decreases.[217]
Although Moseley was soon killed in World War I, the Swedish physicist Manne Siegbahn continued his work up to uranium,
and established that it was the element with the highest atomic number then known (92).[223] Based on Moseley and
Siegbahn's research, it was also known which atomic numbers corresponded to missing elements yet to be found: 43, 61, 72,
75, 85, and 87.[217] (Element 75 had in fact already been found by Japanese chemist Masataka Ogawa in 1908 and named
nipponium, but he mistakenly assigned it as element 43 instead of 75 and so his discovery was not generally recognised until
later. The contemporarily accepted discovery of element 75 came in 1925, when Walter Noddack, Ida Tacke, and Otto Berg
independently rediscovered it and gave it its present name, rhenium.)[224]

The dawn of atomic physics also clarified the situation of isotopes. In the decay chains of the primordial radioactive elements
thorium and uranium, it soon became evident that there were many apparent new elements that had different atomic weights
Henry Moseley
but exactly the same chemical properties. In 1913, Frederick Soddy coined the term "isotope" to describe this situation, and
considered isotopes to merely be different forms of the same chemical element. This furthermore clarified discrepancies such
as tellurium and iodine: tellurium's natural isotopic composition is weighted towards heavier isotopes than iodine's, but tellurium has a lower atomic number.[225]

Electron shells
The Danish physicist Niels Bohr applied Max Planck's idea of quantisation to the atom. He concluded that the energy levels of electrons were quantised: only a
discrete set of stable energy states were allowed. Bohr then attempted to understand periodicity through electron configurations, surmising in 1913 that the inner
electrons should be responsible for the chemical properties of the element.[226][227] In 1913, he produced the first electronic periodic table based on a quantum
atom.[228]

Bohr called his electron shells "rings" in 1913: atomic orbitals within shells did not exist at the time of his planetary model. Bohr explains in Part 3 of his famous
1913 paper that the maximum electrons in a shell is eight, writing, "We see, further, that a ring of n electrons cannot rotate in a single ring round a nucleus of
charge ne unless n < 8." For smaller atoms, the electron shells would be filled as follows: "rings of electrons will only join if they contain equal numbers of
electrons; and that accordingly the numbers of electrons on inner rings will only be 2, 4, 8." However, in larger atoms the innermost shell would contain eight
electrons: "on the other hand, the periodic system of the elements strongly suggests that already in neon N = 10 an inner ring of eight electrons will occur." His
proposed electron configurations for the atoms (shown to the right) mostly do not accord with those now known.[229][230] They were improved further after the
work of Arnold Sommerfeld and Edmund Stoner discovered more quantum numbers.[225]

The first one to systematically expand and correct the chemical potentials of Bohr's atomic theory was Walther Kossel in 1914
Bohr's electron configurations for light
and in 1916. Kossel explained that in the periodic table new elements would be created as electrons were added to the outer elements
shell. In Kossel's paper, he writes: "This leads to the conclusion that the electrons, which are added further, should be put into
Element Electrons per shell
concentric rings or shells, on each of which ... only a certain number of electrons—namely, eight in our case—should be
arranged. As soon as one ring or shell is completed, a new one has to be started for the next element; the number of electrons, 4 2,2
which are most easily accessible, and lie at the outermost periphery, increases again from element to element and, therefore, in
6 2,4
the formation of each new shell the chemical periodicity is repeated."[231][232]
7 4,3
In a 1919 paper, Irving Langmuir postulated the existence of "cells" which we now call orbitals, which could each only contain
two electrons each, and these were arranged in "equidistant layers" which we now call shells. He made an exception for the 8 4,2,2
first shell to only contain two electrons.[233] The chemist Charles Rugeley Bury suggested in 1921 that eight and eighteen 9 4,4,1
electrons in a shell form stable configurations. Bury proposed that the electron configurations in transitional elements
10 8,2
depended upon the valence electrons in their outer shell.[234] He introduced the word transition to describe the elements now
known as transition metals or transition elements.[235] Bohr's theory was vindicated by the discovery of element 72: Georges 11 8,2,1
Urbain claimed to have discovered it as the rare earth element celtium, but Bury and Bohr had predicted that element 72 could
16 8,4,2,2
not be a rare earth element and had to be a homologue of zirconium. Dirk Coster and Georg von Hevesy searched for the
element in zirconium ores and found element 72, which they named hafnium after Bohr's hometown of Copenhagen (Hafnia 18 8,8,2
in Latin).[236][237] Urbain's celtium proved to be simply purified lutetium (element 71).[238] Hafnium and rhenium thus
became the last stable elements to be discovered.[225]

Prompted by Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli took up the problem of electron configurations in 1923. Pauli extended Bohr's scheme to use four quantum numbers, and
formulated his exclusion principle which stated that no two electrons could have the same four quantum numbers. This explained the lengths of the periods in the
periodic table (2, 8, 18, and 32), which corresponded to the number of electrons that each shell could occupy.[239] In 1925, Friedrich Hund arrived at
configurations close to the modern ones.[240] As a result of these advances, periodicity became based on the number of chemically active or valence electrons
rather than by the valences of the elements.[61] The Aufbau principle that describes the electron configurations of the elements was first empirically observed by
Erwin Madelung in 1926,[48] though the first to publish it was Vladimir Karapetoff in 1930.[241][242] In 1961, Vsevolod Klechkovsky derived the first part of the
Madelung rule (that orbitals fill in order of increasing n + ℓ) from the Thomas–Fermi model;[243] the complete rule was derived from a similar potential in 1971 by
Yury N. Demkov and Valentin N. Ostrovsky.[244][s]

The quantum theory clarified the transition metals and lanthanides as forming their
own separate groups, transitional between the main groups, although some chemists
had already proposed tables showing them this way before then: the English chemist
Henry Bassett did so in 1892, the Danish chemist Julius Thomsen in 1895, and the
Swiss chemist Alfred Werner in 1905. Bohr used Thomsen's form in his 1922 Nobel
Lecture; Werner's form is very similar to the modern 32-column form. In particular,
this supplanted Brauner's asteroidal hypothesis.[21]

The exact position of the lanthanides, and thus the composition of group 3, remained
under dispute for decades longer because their electron configurations were initially
measured incorrectly.[12][95] On chemical grounds Bassett, Werner, and Bury Periodic table of Alfred Werner (1905), the first appearance of the long form[21]
grouped scandium and yttrium with lutetium rather than lanthanum (the former two
left an empty space below yttrium as lutetium had not yet been discovered).[21][234]
Hund assumed in 1927 that all the lanthanide atoms had configuration [Xe]4f0−145d16s2, on account of their prevailing trivalency. It is now known that the
relationship between chemistry and electron configuration is more complicated than that.[t][57] Early spectroscopic evidence seemed to confirm these
configurations, and thus the periodic table was structured to have group 3 as scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, and actinium, with fourteen f-elements breaking up
the d-block between lanthanum and hafnium.[12] But it was later discovered that this is only true for four of the fifteen lanthanides (lanthanum, cerium,
gadolinium, and lutetium), and that the other lanthanide atoms do not have a d-electron. In particular, ytterbium completes the 4f shell and thus Soviet physicists
Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz noted in 1948 that lutetium is correctly regarded as a d-block rather than an f-block element;[13] that bulk lanthanum is an f-
metal was first suggested by Jun Kondō in 1963, on the grounds of its low-temperature superconductivity.[103] This clarified the importance of looking at low-lying
excited states of atoms that can play a role in chemical environments when classifying elements by block and positioning them on the table.[66][68][12] Many
authors subsequently rediscovered this correction based on physical, chemical, and electronic concerns and applied it to all the relevant elements, thus making
group 3 contain scandium, yttrium, lutetium, and lawrencium[66][10][95] and having lanthanum through ytterbium and actinium through nobelium as the f-block
rows:[66][10] this corrected version achieves consistency with the Madelung rule and vindicates Bassett, Werner, and Bury's initial chemical placement.[21]

In 1988, IUPAC released a report supporting this composition of group 3,[10] a decision that was reaffirmed in 2021.[11] Variation can still be found in textbooks on
the composition of group 3,[23] and some argumentation against this format is still published today,[14] but chemists and physicists who have considered the
matter largely agree on group 3 containing scandium, yttrium, lutetium, and lawrencium and challenge the counterarguments as being inconsistent.[14]

Synthetic elements
By 1936, the pool of missing elements from hydrogen to uranium had shrunk to four: elements 43, 61, 85, and 87 remained missing. Element 43 eventually
became the first element to be synthesised artificially via nuclear reactions rather than discovered in nature. It was discovered in 1937 by Italian chemists Emilio
Segrè and Carlo Perrier, who named their discovery technetium, after the Greek word for "artificial".[245] Elements 61 (promethium) and 85 (astatine) were
likewise produced artificially in 1945 and 1940 respectively; element 87 (francium) became the last element to be discovered in nature, by French chemist
Marguerite Perey in 1939.[246][u] The elements beyond uranium were likewise discovered artificially, starting with Edwin McMillan and Philip Abelson's 1940
discovery of neptunium (via bombardment of uranium with neutrons).[78] Glenn T. Seaborg and his team at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
continued discovering transuranium elements, starting with plutonium in 1941, and discovered that contrary to previous thinking, the elements from actinium
onwards were congeners of the lanthanides rather than transition metals.[247] Bassett (1892), Werner (1905), and the French
engineer Charles Janet (1928) had previously suggested this, but their ideas did not then receive general acceptance.[21]
Seaborg thus called them the actinides.[247] Elements up to 101 (named mendelevium in honour of Mendeleev) were
synthesised up to 1955, either through neutron or alpha-particle irradiation, or in nuclear explosions in the cases of 99
(einsteinium) and 100 (fermium).[78]

A significant controversy arose with elements 102 through 106 in the 1960s and 1970s, as competition arose between the LBNL
team (now led by Albert Ghiorso) and a team of Soviet scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) led by
Georgy Flyorov. Each team claimed discovery, and in some cases each proposed their own name for the element, creating an
element naming controversy that lasted decades. These elements were made by bombardment of actinides with light ions.[248]
IUPAC at first adopted a hands-off approach, preferring to wait and see if a consensus would be forthcoming. But as it was also
the height of the Cold War, it became clear that this would not happen. As such, IUPAC and the International Union of Pure
and Applied Physics (IUPAP) created a Transfermium Working Group (TWG, fermium being element 100) in 1985 to set out
criteria for discovery,[249] which were published in 1991.[250] After some further controversy, these elements received their
Glenn T. Seaborg
final names in 1997, including seaborgium (106) in honour of Seaborg.[251]

The TWG's criteria were used to arbitrate later element discovery claims from LBNL and JINR, as well as from research
institutes in Germany (GSI) and Japan (Riken).[252] Currently, consideration of discovery claims is performed by a IUPAC/
IUPAP Joint Working Party. After priority was assigned, the elements were officially added to the periodic table, and the
discoverers were invited to propose their names.[20] By 2016, this had occurred for all elements up to 118, therefore completing
the periodic table's first seven rows.[20][253] The discoveries of elements beyond 106 were made possible by techniques devised
by Yuri Oganessian at the JINR: cold fusion (bombardment of lead and bismuth by heavy ions) made possible the 1981–2004
discoveries of elements 107 through 112 at GSI and 113 at Riken, and he led the JINR team (in collaboration with American
scientists) to discover elements 114 through 118 using hot fusion (bombardment of actinides by calcium ions) in 1998–2010.
[254][255] The heaviest known element, oganesson (118), is named in Oganessian's honour. Element 114 is named flerovium in
Yuri Oganessian
honour of his predecessor and mentor Flyorov.[255]

In celebration of the periodic table's 150th anniversary, the United Nations declared the year 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table, celebrating "one
of the most significant achievements in science".[256] The discovery criteria set down by the TWG were updated in 2020 in response to experimental and
theoretical progress that had not been foreseen in 1991.[257] Today, the periodic table is among the most recognisable icons of chemistry.[84] IUPAC is involved
today with many processes relating to the periodic table: the recognition and naming of new elements, recommending group numbers and collective names, and
the updating of atomic weights.[20]

Future extension beyond the seventh period

The most recently named elements – nihonium (113), moscovium (115), tennessine
(117), and oganesson (118) – completed the seventh row of the periodic table.[20]
Future elements would have to begin an eighth row. These elements may be referred
to either by their atomic numbers (e.g. "element 119"), or by the IUPAC systematic
element names adopted in 1978, which directly relate to the atomic numbers (e.g.
"ununennium" for element 119, derived from Latin unus "one", Greek ennea "nine",
and the traditional -ium suffix for metallic elements).[20] All attempts to synthesise
such elements have failed so far. An attempt to make element 119 has been ongoing
since 2018 at the Riken research institute in Japan. The LBNL in the United States,
the JINR in Russia, and the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (HIRFL) in
China also plan to make their own attempts at synthesising the first few period 8
elements.[260][261][262][263][264][265]

If the eighth period followed the pattern set by the earlier periods, then it would
contain fifty elements, filling the 8s, 5g, 6f, 7d, and finally 8p subshells in that order.
But by this point, relativistic effects should result in significant deviations from the
Madelung rule. Various different models have been suggested for the configurations
of eighth-period elements, as well as how to show the results in a periodic table. All
Energy eigenvalues (in eV) for the outermost electrons of elements with Z = 100
agree that the eighth period should begin like the previous ones with two 8s through 172, predicted using Dirac–Fock calculations. The − and + signs refer to
elements, 119 and 120. However, after that the massive energetic overlaps between orbitals with decreased or increased azimuthal quantum number from spin–orbit
the 5g, 6f, 7d, and 8p subshells means that they all begin to fill together, and it is not splitting respectively: p− is p1/2, p+ is p3/2, d− is d3/2, d+ is d5/2, f− is f5/2, f+ is f7/2, g−
clear how to separate out specific 5g and 6f series.[62][266][267][268][269] Elements 121 is g7/2, and g+ is g9/2.[258] The spacing of energy levels up to Z = 120 is normal, and
through 156 thus do not fit well as chemical analogues of any previous group in the becomes normal again at Z = 157; between them, a very different situation is
observed.[259]
earlier parts of the table,[131] although they have sometimes been placed as 5g, 6f,
and other series to formally reflect their electron configurations. [131] Eric Scerri has
raised the question of whether an extended periodic table should take into account the failure of the Madelung rule in this region, or if such exceptions should be
ignored.[266] The shell structure may also be fairly formal at this point: already the electron distribution in an oganesson atom is expected to be rather uniform,
with no discernible shell structure.[270]

The situation from elements 157 to 172 should return to normalcy and be more reminiscent of the earlier rows.[259] The heavy p-shells are split by the spin–orbit
interaction: one p-orbital (p1/2) is more stabilised, and the other two (p3/2) are destabilised. (Such shifts in the quantum numbers happen for all types of shells,
but it makes the biggest difference to the order for the p-shells.) It is likely that by element 157, the filled 8s and 8p1/2 shells with four electrons in total have sunk
into the core. Beyond the core, the next orbitals are 7d and 9s at similar energies, followed by 9p1/2 and 8p3/2 at similar energies, and then a large gap.[259] Thus,
the 9s and 9p1/2 orbitals in essence replace the 8s and 8p1/2 ones, making elements 157–172 probably chemically analogous to groups 3–18: for example, element
164 would appear two places below lead in group 14 under the usual pattern, but is calculated to be very analogous to palladium in group 10 instead.[57][268][62]
[258][131] Thus, it takes fifty-four elements rather than fifty to reach the next noble element after 118.[271] However, while these conclusions about elements 157

through 172's chemistry are generally agreed by models,[131][62] there is disagreement on whether the periodic table should be drawn to reflect chemical analogies,
or if it should reflect likely formal electron configurations, which should be quite different from earlier periods and are not agreed between sources. Discussion
about the format of the eighth row thus continues.[62][268][269][107]

Beyond element 172, calculation is complicated by the 1s electron energy level becoming imaginary. Such a situation does have physical interpretation, and does
not in itself pose an electronic limit to the periodic table, but the correct way to incorporate such states into multi-electron calculations is still an open problem.
This would need to be solved to continue calculating the periodic table's structure beyond this point.[272]
Nuclear stability will likely prove a decisive factor constraining the number of possible elements. It depends on the balance between the electric repulsion between
protons and the strong force binding protons and neutrons together.[273] Protons and neutrons are arranged in shells, just like electrons, and so a closed shell can
significantly increase stability: the known superheavy nuclei exist because of such a shell closure, probably at around 114–126 protons and 184 neutrons.[272] They
are probably close to a predicted island of stability, where superheavy nuclides should be more long-lived than expected: predictions for the longest-lived nuclides
on the island range from microseconds to millions of years.[107][274][275] It should nonetheless be noted that these are essentially extrapolations into an unknown
part of the chart of nuclides, and systematic model uncertainties need to be taken into account.[107]

As the closed shells are passed, the stabilising effect should vanish:[276] thus, superheavy nuclides with more than 184 neutrons are expected to have much shorter
lifetimes, spontaneously fissioning within 10−15 seconds. If this is so, then it would not make sense to consider them chemical elements: IUPAC defines an element
to exist only if the nucleus lives longer than 10−14 seconds, the time needed for it to gather an electron cloud. Nonetheless, theoretical estimates of half-lives are
very model-dependent, ranging over many orders of magnitude.[272] The extreme repulsion between protons is predicted to result in exotic nuclear topologies,
with bubbles, rings, and tori expected: this further complicates extrapolation.[107] It is not clear if any further-out shell closures exist, due to an expected smearing
out of distinct nuclear shells (as is already expected for the electron shells at oganesson).[276] Furthermore, even if later shell closures exist, it is not clear if they
would allow such heavy elements to exist.[277][278][279][180] As such, it may be that the periodic table practically ends around element 120, as elements become too
short-lived to observe, and then too short-lived to have chemistry; the era of discovering new elements would thus be close to its end.[180][280] If another proton
shell closure beyond 126 does exist, then it probably occurs around 164;[277] thus the region where periodicity fails more or less matches the region of instability
between the shell closures.[131]

Alternatively, quark matter may become stable at high mass numbers, in which the nucleus is composed of freely flowing up and down quarks instead of binding
them into protons and neutrons; this would create a continent of stability instead of an island.[281][282] Other effects may come into play: for example, in very
heavy elements the 1s electrons are likely to spend a significant amount of time so close to the nucleus that they are actually inside it, which would make them
vulnerable to electron capture.[283]

Even if eighth-row elements can exist, producing them is likely to be difficult, and it should become even more difficult as atomic number rises.[284] Although the
8s elements 119 and 120 are expected to be reachable with present means, the elements beyond that are expected to require new technology,[285] if they can be
produced at all.[286] Experimentally characterising these elements chemically would also pose a great challenge.[260]

Alternative periodic tables

The periodic law may be represented in multiple ways, of which the standard periodic table is only one.[287]
Within 100 years of the appearance of Mendeleev's table in 1869, Edward G. Mazurs had collected an
estimated 700 different published versions of the periodic table.[183][288] Many forms retain the rectangular
structure, including Charles Janet's left-step periodic table (pictured below), and the modernised form of
Mendeleev's original 8-column layout that is still common in Russia. Other periodic table formats have been
shaped much more exotically, such as spirals (Otto Theodor Benfey's pictured to the right), circles and
triangles.[289]

Alternative periodic tables are often developed to highlight or emphasize chemical or physical properties of
the elements that are not as apparent in traditional periodic tables, with different ones skewed more
towards emphasizing chemistry or physics at either end.[290] The standard form, which remains by far the
most common, is somewhere in the middle.[290]

The many different forms of the periodic table have prompted the questions of whether there is an optimal
or definitive form of the periodic table, and if so, what it might be. There are no current consensus answers
to either question.[291][290] Janet's left-step table is being increasingly discussed as a candidate for being the Otto Theodor Benfey's spiral periodic table (1964)
optimal or most fundamental form; Scerri has written in support of it, as it clarifies helium's nature as an s-
block element, increases regularity by having all period lengths repeated, faithfully follows Madelung's rule
by making each period correspond to one value of n + ℓ,[g] and regularises atomic number triads and the first-row anomaly trend. While he notes that its
placement of helium atop the alkaline earth metals can be seen a disadvantage from a chemical perspective, he counters this by appealing to the first-row
anomaly, pointing out that the periodic table "fundamentally reduces to quantum mechanics", and that it is concerned with "abstract elements" and hence atomic
properties rather than macroscopic properties.[297]

Left-step periodic table (by Charles Janet) [hide]

f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 f7 f8 f9 f10 f11 f12 f13 f14 d1 d2 d3 d4 d5 d6 d7 d8 d9 d10 p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 s1 s2
1s H He
2s Li Be
2p 3s B C N O F Ne Na Mg
3p 4s Al Si P S Cl Ar K Ca
3d 4p 5s Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br Kr Rb Sr
4d 5p 6s Y Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn Sb Te I Xe Cs Ba
4f 5d 6p 7s La Ce Pr Nd Pm Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb Lu Hf Ta W Re Os Ir Pt Au Hg Tl Pb Bi Po At Rn Fr Ra
5f 6d 7p 8s Ac Th Pa U Np Pu Am Cm Bk Cf Es Fm Md No Lr Rf Db Sg Bh Hs Mt Ds Rg Cn Nh Fl Mc Lv Ts Og Uue Ubn
f-block d-block p-block s-block
This form of periodic table is congruent with the order in which electron shells are ideally filled according to the Madelung rule, as shown in the accompanying sequence in the left
margin (read from top to bottom, left to right). The experimentally determined ground-state electron configurations of the elements differ from the configurations predicted by the
Madelung rule in twenty instances, but the Madelung-predicted configurations are always at least close to the ground state. The last two elements shown, elements 119 and 120,
have not yet been synthesized.

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