Atomic Properties of Rg
- Atomic Number of Rg
- 111
- Atomic Mass of Rg
- 282.0000 u
- Electron Configuration
- [Rn] 5f14 6d9 7s2
- Electronegativity
- —
- Block
- d-block
- Group
- 11
- Period
- 7
Roentgenium wears a small X on his lapel in honor of Wilhelm Röntgen, discoverer of X-rays. “He got the letter,” Rg says with a grin. “I got the element.”
He’s incredibly short-lived and produced only atom by atom, so his personality mostly exists through spectral lines and decay data.
Roentgenium is predicted to behave like an ultra-heavy noble-ish coin metal, a distant cousin of gold and silver, but there’s no way he’ll ever end up in a ring or a wire.
He likes that. “I live on charts,” he shrugs. “Not on jewelry.”
Roentgenium is one of those elements whose main job is to show that our theories still work at the extreme end.