Atomic Properties of Cn
- Atomic Number of Cn
- 112
- Atomic Mass of Cn
- 285.0000 u
- Electron Configuration
- [Rn] 5f14 6d10 7s2
- Electronegativity
- —
- Block
- d-block
- Group
- 12
- Period
- 7
Copernicium is named after Nicolaus Copernicus, who helped move Earth out of the center of the universe in our models. Cn loves that story.
“Perspective matters,” he says, examining orbital diagrams that twist and warp under relativistic effects. As a superheavy cousin of mercury, his electrons feel the pull of the nucleus in strange, intense ways.
He appears in tiny quantities, decaying quickly, but his predicted behavior helps test how far periodic trends can be stretched before they bend.
Copernicium spends a lot of time staring at charts with curved axes, asking, “What if the pattern looks different from here?”
He’s the Instants’ philosopher of orbital weirdness.