List of elements by density
This is a list of the chemical elements, sorted by density measured at standard temperature and pressure. (The first elements from hydrogen to radon are gases at normal room temperatures.)
| Name | Symbol | Density (g/cm³) | Atomic number | Description/Mohs' hardness | Color | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hydrogen | H | Template:Sort | 1 | gas | diatomic | |
| Helium | He | Template:Sort | 2 | noble gas | 100px | lowest boiling and melting points of any element |
| Neon | Ne | Template:Sort | 10 | noble gas | 100px | |
| Nitrogen | N | Template:Sort | 7 | gas | diatomic | |
| Oxygen | O | Template:Sort | 8 | gas | diatomic | |
| Fluorine | F | Template:Sort | 9 | halogen gas | yellow-green or yellowish brown | |
| Argon | Ar | Template:Sort | 18 | noble gas | 100px | |
| Chlorine | Cl | Template:Sort | 17 | halogen gas | yellowish green or greenish yellow | |
| Krypton | Kr | Template:Sort | 36 | noble gas | 100px | forms compounds with fluorine and clathrates with water |
| Xenon | Xe | Template:Sort | 54 | noble gas | 100px | |
| Radon | Rn | Template:Sort | 86 | noble gas | radioactive, comes from radium | |
| Lithium | Li | Template:Sort | 3 | 0.6 | ![]() silvery white/gray |
used in batteries |
| Potassium | K | Template:Sort | 19 | 0.4 | ![]() silvery white |
forms many compounds |
| Sodium | Na | Template:Sort | 11 | 0.5 | 100px waxy, silvery white |
burns with a yellow flame, reacts violently with water, and oxidizes in air necessitating storage in an inert environment |
| Rubidium | Rb | Template:Sort | 37 | 0.3 | 100px silvery-white |
low melting point, reacts violently with water like sodium |
| Calcium | Ca | Template:Sort | 20 | 1.75 | ![]() gray |
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| Magnesium | Mg | Template:Sort | 12 | 2.5 | ![]() silvery metallic |
is very brittle, flammable |
| Phosphorus | P | Template:Sort | 15 | nonmetal | ![]() waxy white/ red/ black/ colorless |
Due to its high reactivity, it is never found as a free element in nature. |
| Beryllium | Be | Template:Sort | 4 | 5.5 | 100px gray metallic |
brittle |
| Francium | Fr | Template:Sort | 87 | radioactive alkali metal | alkali metal isotope found in uranium and thorium ores | |
| Cesium | Cs | Template:Sort | 55 | 0.2 | 100px silvery gold |
liquid at or near room temperature, very reactive |
| Sulfur | S | Template:Sort | 16 | 2.0 | ![]() lemon yellow |
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| Carbon | C | Template:Sort | 6 | 10.0 (diamond) | colorless | |
| Carbon | C | Template:Sort | 6 | 1-2 (graphite) | ![]() black |
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| Silicon | Si | Template:Sort | 14 | 6.5 metalloid | 100px dark gray, bluish tinge |
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| Boron | B | Template:Sort | 5 | 9.3 | 100px black/brown/ amorphous boron is a brown powder, metallic boron is black |
The metallic form is hard (9.3 on Mohs' scale) and a poor conductor at room temperature. |
| Strontium | Sr | Template:Sort | 38 | 1.5 | 100px a soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element |
The metal turns yellow when exposed to air. somewhat malleable. It is chiefly employed (as in the nitrate) to color pyrotechnic flames red. |
| Aluminium | Al | Template:Sort | 13 | 2.75 | ![]() silvery |
non-magnetic, very reflective |
| Scandium | Sc | Template:Sort | 21 | transition metal | 100px soft, silvery, develops a slightly yellowish or pinkish cast when exposed to air |
not attacked by a 1:1 mixture of nitric acid(HNO3) and 48% HF |
| Bromine | Br | Template:Sort | 35 | halogen | 100px gas/liquid: red-brown solid: metallic luster |
a red volatile liquid at standard room temperature. This element is corrosive to human tissue |
| Barium | Ba | Template:Sort | 56 | 1.25 | ![]() metallic |
Naturally occurring barium is a mix of seven stable isotopes. There are twenty-two isotopes known, but most of these are highly radioactive and have half-lives in the several millisecond to several minute range. The only notable exceptions are 133Ba which has a half-life of 10.51 years, and 137mBa (2.6 minutes). |
| Yttrium | Y | Template:Sort | 39 | transition metal | 100px silvery metallic |
two of its compounds are used to make the red color phosphors in cathode ray tube displays |
| Titanium | Ti | Template:Sort | 22 | 6.0 | 100px silvery metallic |
corrosion-resistant (including resistance to sea water and chlorine, high tensile strength |
| Selenium | Se | Template:Sort | 34 | 2.0 | ![]() gray, metallic luster |
Selenium has at least 29 isotopes, of which 5 are stable, and 6 are nuclear isomers. |
| Iodine | I | Template:Sort | 53 | halogen solid that sublimes at standard temperatures into a purple-pink gas that has an irritating odor | 100px violet-dark gray, lustrous |
least reactive of the halogens |
| Europium | Eu | Template:Sort | 63 | lanthanide | 100px | |
| Germanium | Ge | Template:Sort | 32 | 6.0 | 100px | |
| Radium | Ra | Template:Sort | 88 | almost pure white, readily oxidizes on exposure to air, turning black | Radium preparations are remarkable for maintaining themselves at a higher temperature than their surroundings, and for their radiations: alpha particles, beta particles, and gamma rays. Radium also produces neutrons when mixed with beryllium. | |
| Arsenic | As | Template:Sort | 33 | 3.5 | ![]() metallic gray, allotropic forms; yellow, black and grey |
poisonous |
| Gallium | Ga | Template:Sort | 31 | 1.5 | 100px | melts at 29.7 degrees Celsius (just above room temperature) |
| Vanadium | V | Template:Sort | 23 | 7.0 | 100px | |
| Lanthanum | La | Template:Sort | 57 | 2.5 | 100px | |
| Tellurium | Te | Template:Sort | 52 | 2.25 | 100px silvery lustrous gray |
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| Zirconium | Zr | Template:Sort | 40 | 5.0 | 100px | |
| Antimony | Sb | Template:Sort | 51 | 3.0 | 100px silvery lustrous grey |
toxic |
| Cerium | Ce | Template:Sort | 58 | 2.5 | 100px resembles iron |
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| Praseodymium | Pr | Template:Sort | 59 | soft | ![]() silvery white, yellowish tinge |
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| Ytterbium | Yb | Template:Sort | 70 | |||
| Astatine | At | Template:Sort | 85 | |||
| Neodymium | Nd | Template:Sort | 60 | used in powerful permanent magnets | ||
| Zinc | Zn | Template:Sort | 30 | 2.5 | ||
| Chromium | Cr | Template:Sort | 24 | 8.5 | ||
| Promethium | Pm | Template:Sort | 61 | |||
| Tin | Sn | Template:Sort | 50 | 1.5 soft metal | ||
| Indium | In | Template:Sort | 49 | soft metal | ||
| Manganese | Mn | Template:Sort | 25 | 6.0 | ||
| Samarium | Sm | Template:Sort | 62 | |||
| Iron | Fe | Template:Sort | 26 | metal | ||
| Gadolinium | Gd | Template:Sort | 64 | |||
| Terbium | Tb | Template:Sort | 65 | |||
| Dysprosium | Dy | Template:Sort | 66 | |||
| Niobium | Nb | Template:Sort | 41 | |||
| Cadmium | Cd | Template:Sort | 48 | |||
| Holmium | Ho | Template:Sort | 67 | |||
| Cobalt | Co | Template:Sort | 27 | |||
| Nickel | Ni | Template:Sort | 28 | |||
| Copper | Cu | Template:Sort | 29 | |||
| Erbium | Er | Template:Sort | 68 | |||
| Polonium | Po | Template:Sort | 84 | |||
| Ununhexium | Uuh | Template:Sort | 116 | |||
| Thulium | Tm | Template:Sort | 69 | |||
| Bismuth | Bi | Template:Sort | 83 | |||
| Ununpentium | Uup | Template:Sort | 115 | |||
| Lutetium | Lu | Template:Sort | 71 | |||
| Lawrencium | Lr | Template:Sort | 103 | |||
| Actinium | Ac | Template:Sort | 89 | radioactive metallic element. glows in the dark with an eerie blue light. | ||
| Molybdenum | Mo | Template:Sort | 42 | |||
| Silver | Ag | Template:Sort | 47 | |||
| Lead | Pb | Template:Sort | 82 | |||
| Ununquadium | Uuq | Template:Sort | 114 | |||
| Technetium | Tc | Template:Sort | 43 | |||
| Thorium | Th | Template:Sort | 90 | |||
| Thallium | Tl | Template:Sort | 81 | |||
| Ununtrium | Uut | Template:Sort | 113 | |||
| Palladium | Pd | Template:Sort | 46 | |||
| Ruthenium | Ru | Template:Sort | 44 | |||
| Rhodium | Rh | Template:Sort | 45 | |||
| Hafnium | Hf | Template:Sort | 72 | |||
| Einsteinium | Es | Template:Sort | 99 | |||
| Curium | Cm | Template:Sort | 96 | |||
| Mercury | Hg | Template:Sort | 80 | |||
| Ununbium | Uub | Template:Sort | 112 | |||
| Americium | Am | Template:Sort | 95 | |||
| Berkelium | Bk | Template:Sort | 97 | |||
| Californium | Cf | Template:Sort | 98 | |||
| Protactinium | Pa | Template:Sort | 91 | |||
| Tantalum | Ta | Template:Sort | 73 | |||
| Rutherfordium | Rf | Template:Sort | 104 | |||
| Uranium | U | Template:Sort | 92 | |||
| Tungsten | W | Template:Sort | 74 | |||
| Gold | Au | Template:Sort | 79 | |||
| Roentgenium | Rg | Template:Sort | 111 | |||
| Plutonium | Pu | Template:Sort | 94 | |||
| Neptunium | Np | Template:Sort | 93 | |||
| Rhenium | Re | Template:Sort | 75 | |||
| Platinum | Pt | Template:Sort | 78 | |||
| Darmstadtium | Ds | Template:Sort | 110 | |||
| Osmium | Os | Template:Sort | 76 | |||
| Iridium | Ir | Template:Sort | 77 | |||
| Seaborgium | Sg | Template:Sort | 106 | |||
| Meitnerium | Mt | Template:Sort | 109 | |||
| Bohrium | Bh | Template:Sort | 107 | |||
| Dubnium | Db | Template:Sort | 105 | |||
| Hassium | Hs | Template:Sort | 108 | |||
| Fermium | Fm | Template:Sort | 100 | |||
| Mendelevium | Md | Template:Sort | 101 | |||
| Nobelium | No | Template:Sort | 102 | |||
| Ununoctium | Uuo | Template:Sort | 118 |
Periodic tables | |
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| Layouts | Standard · Vertical · Full names · Names and atomic masses · Text for last · Huge table · Metals and nonmetals · Blocks · Valences · Inline f-block · 218 elements · Electron configurations · Atomic masses · Electronegativities · Alternatives |
| Lists of elements | Name · Atomic symbol · Atomic number · Boiling point · Melting point · Density · Atomic mass |
| Groups | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17 · 18 |
| Periods: | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 |
| Series | Alkalis · Alkaline earths · Lanthanides · Actinides · Transition metals · Poor metals · Metalloids · Nonmetals · Halogens · Noble gases |
| Blocks | s-block · p-block · d-block · f-block · g-block |
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