Template:Infobox sodium

Sodium, ₁₁Na

Sodium
Appearance	silvery white metallic
Standard atomic weight Ar, std(Na)	22.98976928(2)
Sodium in the periodic table
Hydrogen Helium Lithium Beryllium Boron Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Fluorine Neon Sodium Magnesium Aluminium Silicon Phosphorus Sulfur Chlorine Argon Potassium Calcium Scandium Titanium Vanadium Chromium Manganese Iron Cobalt Nickel Copper Zinc Gallium Germanium Arsenic Selenium Bromine Krypton Rubidium Strontium Yttrium Zirconium Niobium Molybdenum Technetium Ruthenium Rhodium Palladium Silver Cadmium Indium Tin Antimony Tellurium Iodine Xenon Caesium Barium Lanthanum Cerium Praseodymium Neodymium Promethium Samarium Europium Gadolinium Terbium Dysprosium Holmium Erbium Thulium Ytterbium Lutetium Hafnium Tantalum Tungsten Rhenium Osmium Iridium Platinum Gold Mercury (element) Thallium Lead Bismuth Polonium Astatine Radon Francium Radium Actinium Thorium Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Hassium Meitnerium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicium Nihonium Flerovium Moscovium Livermorium Tennessine Oganesson Li ↑ Na ↓ K neon ← sodium → magnesium
Atomic number (Z)	11
Group	group 1: hydrogen and alkali metals
Period	period 3
Block	s-block
Element category	s-block
Electron configuration	[Ne] 3s1
Electrons per shell	2, 8, 1
Physical properties
Phase at STP	solid
Melting point	370.944 K ​(97.794 °C, ​208.029 °F)
Boiling point	1156.090 K ​(882.940 °C, ​1621.292 °F)
Density (near r.t.)	0.968 g/cm3
when liquid (at m.p.)	0.927 g/cm3
Critical point	2573 K, 35 MPa (extrapolated)
Heat of fusion	2.60 kJ/mol
Heat of vaporization	97.42 kJ/mol
Molar heat capacity	28.230 J/(mol·K)
Vapor pressure P (Pa) 1 10 100 1 k 10 k 100 k at T (K) 554 617 697 802 946 1153
Atomic properties
Oxidation states	−1, +1 (a strongly basic oxide)
Electronegativity	Pauling scale: 0.93
Ionization energies	1st: 495.8 kJ/mol 2nd: 4562 kJ/mol 3rd: 6910.3 kJ/mol (more)
Atomic radius	empirical: 186 pm
Covalent radius	166±9 pm
Van der Waals radius	227 pm
Spectral lines of sodium
Other properties
Natural occurrence	primordial
Crystal structure	​body-centered cubic (bcc)
Speed of sound thin rod	3200 m/s (at 20 °C)
Thermal expansion	71 µm/(m·K) (at 25 °C)
Thermal conductivity	142 W/(m·K)
Electrical resistivity	47.7 nΩ·m (at 20 °C)
Magnetic ordering	paramagnetic
Magnetic susceptibility	+16.0·10−6 cm3/mol (298 K)
Young's modulus	10 GPa
Shear modulus	3.3 GPa
Bulk modulus	6.3 GPa
Mohs hardness	0.5
Brinell hardness	0.69 MPa
CAS Number	7440-23-5
History
Discovery and first isolation	Humphry Davy (1807)
Main isotopes of sodium
Iso­tope Abun­dance Physics:Half-life (t1/2) Decay mode Pro­duct 22Na trace 2.602 y β+ 22Ne 23Na 100% stable 24Na trace 14.96 h β− 24Mg

Na data m.p. cat
	in	calc from C	diff	report	ref
C	97.794	—	—
K	370.944	370.944	0
F	208.029	208.029	0
max precision	3
WD
input	C: 97.794, K: 370.944, F: 208.029
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Na data b.p. cat
	in	calc from C	diff	report	ref
C	882.940	—	—
K	1156.090	1156.090	0
F	1621.292	1621.292	0
max precision	3
WD
input	C: 882.940, K: 1156.090, F: 1621.292
comment

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