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H

Hydrogen

Hydrogen General Information

 Categories
  • Class: Non-Metals
  • Period: 1
  • IUPAC group: 1
  • Traditional: Ia
History
  • Discovered in: 1766 by Cavendish
  • Origin of name: Greek: hydro (water) + genes (forming) = (water forming)
  • Historical or alternate name:
Common natural occurrences

Water, organic matter such as plants, petroleum, coal, etc.

Description

Colorless, odorless gas, insoluble in water, burns & forms explosive mixtures in air..

Abundances
  • Atmosphere: 0.53 ppm
  • Primitive mantle: ~0.0 ppm
  • Sea water: (H2O) ppm
  • Metallic meteorite: 20200.0 ppm
  • Continental crust: 1400.0 ppm
  • Solar photosphere: 12.0 log of abundance
  • Oceanic crust: ~0.0 ppm
  • Solar system: 2.720E+10 relative to Si=1.0e6
Hazards and Tolerances

   Hazards

Flammable gas. Explosive. No toxicity except for possible asphyxiation. Reacts violently with oxidants.

   Human daily limits

  • Lower: Required
  • Upper:

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Hydrogen Physical Properties

 Transitional Data

  • State: Gas
  • Density: 0.0899 g/L

 Molar enthalpy

  • Atomization: 216.003 kJ mol-1
  • Fusion: 0.12 kJ mol-1
  • Vaporization: 0.46 kJ mol-1

 Transition points

  • Melting point: 14.01 K
  • Boiling point: 20.28 K
  • Critical temperature: 33.2 K

 Molar properties

  • Atomic weight: 1.00794 g/mole
  • Molar volume: 22.956 cm3 mol-1

 Crystal structure sequence

hexagonal-close-packed

 Thermodynamics

  • State: gas (H2)
    • Enthalpy 0
    • Gibbs function 0
    • Entropy 130.684
    • Heat Capacity 28.824
  • State: gas (atoms)
    • Enthalpy 217.965
    • Gibbs function 203.247
    • Entropy 114.713
    • Heat Capacity 20.784

 Miscellaneous physical

  • Electrical resistivity: µ-ohms/cm
  • Debye temperature: K
  • Thermal conductivity: 0.183 W / m / K
  • Coefficient of linear expansion: Coef. per K
  • Mass magnetic susceptibility: -2.50e-8
  • X-ray diffraction mass absorption coefficients:
    • CuK: 0.435 (µ/p)/cm2 g-1
    • MoK: 0.380 (µ/p)/cm2 g-1

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Hydrogen Chemical Properties

 Chemical basics:

  • Oxidation states: -1 +1
  • Molecular wt: 1.00794 g/mole

 Radii

  • Covalent: 30 pm
  • Atomic: 37.0 pm
  • Van der Waals: 120 pm

 Ions:

 Covalent bonds

Bond:
H-H
H-F
H-Cl
H-Br
H-I
Radius
74.14
91.7
127.4
140.8
160.9
Energy
453.6
566
431
366
299

 Effective nuclear charge

  • Slater: 1.00
  • Clementi: 1.00
  • Froese-Fischer: 1.00

 Electronegativity

  • Pauling: 2.1
  • Allred-Rochow:

 Standard reactions

oxidation =>
2H+ + 2e- =>
H2 + 2e- =>

reduction
H2
2H-
potential
0.00
-2.25

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Hydrogen Nuclear Properties

Isotopes
Number of isotopes:
  • Known 3
  • Listed 3
Isotope range:
  • Known 1 - 3
  • Listed 1 - 3
Nuclide 1
  • % Occ.:Natural 99.985%
  • Mossbauer NRA:
  • Nuclear spin/Quantum no.: 1/2
  • Radioisotopes:
    • Half-life:
    • Decay mode:
    • Source:
  • Notes
Nuclide 2
  • % Occ.:Natural 0.015%
  • Mossbauer NRA:
  • Nuclear spin/Quantum no.: 1/0
  • Radioisotopes:
    • Half-life:
    • Decay mode:
    • Source:
  • Notes
Nuclide 3
  • % Occ.:Natural
  • Mossbauer NRA:
  • Nuclear spin/Quantum no.: 1/2
  • Radioisotopes:
    • Half-life: 12.43 years
    • Decay mode: Beta-
    • Source: Cosmic irradiation.
  • Notes date med
 
Thermal neutron capture
  • Isotope Cross-section 0.332±0.002 barns
Nuclear magnetic resonance  
Nuclide: 1
  • Absolute sensitivity: 1.00 1H=1.0
  • Relative sensitivity: 1.00 1H=1.0
  • Receptivity: 5680 13C=1.0
  • Magnetogyric ratio: 26.7510e7 rad / T / s
  • Quadropole moment: m2
  • Frequency: 100.000 MHz
  • Reference: Si(CH3)4
Nuclide: 1.00
  • Absolute sensitivity: 5680 1H=1.0
  • Relative sensitivity: 1.00 1H=1.0
  • Receptivity: 26.7510e7 13C=1.0
  • Magnetogyric ratio: rad / T / s
  • Quadropole moment: 100.000 m2
  • Frequency: 2 MHz
  • Reference: Si(CH3)4
   

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Hydrogen Energy Properties

Electrons

  • Ground state electron configuration: 1s1
  • Electron affinity: 72.8 kJ mol-1
  • Filling orbitals:

 Ionization energies

Ionization level
H -> H+
Ionization potential
1312.0

 Atomic energy levels

Orbital
ns

Energy
2.1799

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