Atomic Properties of Nh
- Atomic Number of Nh
- 113
- Atomic Mass of Nh
- 286.0000 u
- Electron Configuration
- [Rn] 5f14 6d10 7s2 7p1
- Electronegativity
- —
- Block
- p-block
- Group
- 13
- Period
- 7
Nihonium straightens his jacket whenever someone reads his name aloud. “New land,” it means, from Nihon — Japan. He’s proud to be the first element discovered and named by a team in East Asia.
He appears for milliseconds in accelerator experiments, decay lines marching across screens as scientists celebrate.
Predicted to act like a heavier cousin of thallium, he’s more important as a marker of human achievement than as a practical material.
He keeps a small flag pin on his collar and smiles whenever students point out that the periodic table really is a global project.
Nihonium is brief, but the recognition he represents is long overdue.