Molybdenum is a Group 6 chemical element wi the seembol Mo an atomic nummer 42. The name is frae Neo-Laitin Molybdaenum, frae Auncient Greek Μόλυβδος molybdos, meanin leid, syne its ores wur confused wi leid ores.[6] Molybdenum meenerals hae been kent intae prehistory, but the element wis discovered (in the sense o differentiatin it as a new entity frae the mineral sauts o ither metals) in 1778 bi Carl Wilhelm Scheele. The metal wis first isolatit in 1781 bi Peter Jacob Hjelm.

Molybdenum, 42Mo
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Molybdenum
Pronunciation/məˈlɪbdɪnəm/ (mə-LIB-din-əm)
Appearancegray metallic
Standard atomic weight Ar, std(Mo)95.95(1)[1]
Molybdenum in the periodic cairt
Hydrogen Helium
Lithium Beryllium Boron Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Fluorine Neon
Sodium Magnesium Aluminium Silicon Phosphorus Sulfur Chlorine Argon
Potassium Calcium Scandium Titanium Vanadium Chromium Manganese Airn Cobalt Nickel Capper Zinc Gallium Germanium Arsenic Selenium Bromine Krypton
Rubidium Strontium Yttrium Zirconium Niobium Molybdenum Technetium Ruthenium Rhodium Palladium Siller (element) Cadmium Indium Tin Antimony Tellurium Iodine Xenon
Caesium Barium Lanthanum Cerium Praseodymium Neodymium Promethium Samarium Europium Gadolinium Terbium Dysprosium Holmium Erbium Thulium Ytterbium Lutetium Hafnium Tantalum Tungsten Rhenium Osmium Iridium Platinum Gowd Mercur (element) Thallium Leid (element) Bismuth Polonium Astatine Radon
Francium Radium Actinium Thorium Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Hassium Meitnerium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicium Ununtrium Flerovium Ununpentium Livermorium Ununseptium Ununoctium
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Atomic nummer (Z)42
Groupgroup 6
Periodperiod 5
Blockd-block
Element category  Transeetion metal
Electron confeeguration[Kr] 4d5 5s1
Electrons per shell2, 8, 18, 13, 1
Pheesical properties
Phase at STPsolit
Meltin pynt2896 K ​(2623 °C, ​4753 °F)
Bylin pynt4912 K ​(4639 °C, ​8382 °F)
Density (near r.t.)10.28 g/cm3
when liquid (at m.p.)9.33 g/cm3
Heat o fusion37.48 kJ/mol
Heat o vapourisation598 kJ/mol
Molar heat capacity24.06 J/(mol·K)
Vapour pressur
P (Pa) 1 10 100 1 k 10 k 100 k
at T (K) 2742 2994 3312 3707 4212 4879
Atomic properties
Oxidation states−4, −2, −1, 0, +1,[2] +2, +3, +4, +5, +6 strangly acidic
ElectronegativityPauling scale: 2.16
Atomic radiusempirical: 139 pm
Covalent radius154±5 pm
Colour lines in a spectral range
Colour lines in a spectral range
Spectral lines o molybdenum
Ither properties
Naitural occurrenceprimordial
Creestal structurbody-centred cubic (bcc)
Body-centered cubic creestal structur for molybdenum
Speed o soond thin rod5400 m/s (at r.t.)
Thermal expansion4.8 µm/(m·K) (at 25 °C)
Thermal conductivity138 W/(m·K)
Thermal diffusivity54.3[3] mm2/s (at 300 K)
Electrical resistivity53.4 n Ω·m (at 20 °C)
Magnetic orderinparamagnetic[4]
Young's modulus329 GPa
Shear modulus126 GPa
Bulk modulus230 GPa
Poisson ratio0.31
Mohs haurdness5.5
Vickers haurdness1530 MPa
Brinell haurdness1500 MPa
CAS Nummer7439-98-7
History
DiskiveryCarl Wilhelm Scheele (1778)
First isolationPeter Jacob Hjelm (1781)
Main isotopes o molybdenum
Iso­tope Abun­dance Hauf-life (t1/2) Decay mode Pro­duct
92Mo 14.84% >1.9×1020 y (β+β+) 92Zr
93Mo syn 4×103 y ε 93Nb
94Mo 9.25% - (SF)
95Mo 15.92% - (SF)
96Mo 16.68% - (SF)
97Mo 9.55% - (SF)
98Mo 24.13% >1×1014 y ββ 98Ru
99Mo syn 65.94 h β 99mTc
γ -
100Mo 9.63% 7.8×1018 y (ββ) 100Ru
Decay modes in parentheses is predict, but hisna yet been observed
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Molybdenum disnae occur naiturally as a free metal on Yird, but rather in sindry oxidation states in meenerals. The free element, whilk is a sillery metal wi a gray cast, haes the saxt-heichest meltin pynt o ony element. It readily furms haird, stable carbides in alloys, an for this raison maist o warld production o the element (aboot 80%) is in makin mony types o steel alloys, includin heich strength alloys an superalloys.

Maist molybdenum compounds hae law solubility in watter, but the molybdate ion MoO2−
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is soluble an furms whan molybdenum-containin meenerals are in contact wi oxygen an watter. Industrially, molybdenum compoonds (aboot 14% o warld production o the element) are uised in high-pressure an heich-temperatur applications, as pigments an catalysts.

Molybdenum-containin enzymes is bi far the maist common catalysts uised bi some bacteria tae break the chemical bond in atmospheric molecular nitrogen, allaein biological nitrogen fixation. At least 50 molybdenum-containin enzymes are nou kent in bacteria an ainimals, tho anly bacterial an cyanobacterial enzymes is involved in nitrogen fixation, an thirnitrogenases contain molybdenum in a different furm frae the rest. Awin tae the diverse functions o the sindry ither types o molybdenum enzymes, molybdenum is a required element for life in aw heicher organisms (eukaryotes), tho nae in aw bacteria.

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