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Niobium (Nb)

transition-metal
Periode: 5 Gruppe: 5 Block: d

Solid

Standardatomgewicht

92,90637 u

Elektronenkonfiguration

[Kr] 5s1 4d4

Schmelzpunkt

2476,85 °C

Siedepunkt

4743,85 °C

Dichte

8570 kg/m³

Oxidationszustände

−3, −1, 0, +1, +2, +3, +4, +5

Elektronegativität (Pauling)

1,6

Ionisierungsenergie (1.)

6,75885 eV

Entdeckungsjahr

1801

Atomradius

145 pm

Details

Namensherkunft From Niobe; daughter of the mythical Greek king Tantalus.
Entdeckungsland England
Entdecker Charles Hatchet

Niobium is a refractory transition metal of group 5, chemically similar to tantalum and commonly occurring with it in oxide minerals. It is valued for its ability to strengthen steel at very small additions and for forming superconducting intermetallic compounds. In most compounds niobium is pentavalent, but lower oxidation states are well established, especially in halides and cluster chemistry.

Niobium is a shiny, white, soft, and ductile metal, and takes on a bluish cast when exposed to air at room temperatures for a long time. The metal starts to oxidize in air at 200°C, and when processed at even moderate temperatures must be placed in a protective atmosphere.

The name derives from the Greek mythological character Niobe, who was the daughter of Tantalus, because the elements niobium and tantalum were originally thought to be identical. Niobium was discovered in a black mineral from America called columbite by the British chemist and manufacturer Charles Hatchett in 1801 and he called the element columbium. In 1809, the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston claimed that columbium and tantalum were identical.

Forty years later, the German chemist and pharmacist, Heinrich Rose, determined that they were two different elements in 1846 and gave the name niobium because it was so difficult to distinguish it from tantalum. The name columbium continued to be used in America and niobium in Europe until IUPAC adopted the name niobium in 1949. Niobium was first isolated by the chemist C. W. Blomstrand in 1846.

The story of niobium's discovery is a bit confusing. The first governor of Connecticut, John Winthrop the Younger, discovered a new mineral around 1734. He named the mineral columbite ((Fe, Mn, Mg)(Nb, Ta)2O6) and sent a sample of it to the British Museum in London, England. The columbite sat in the museum's mineral collection for years until it was analyzed by Charles Hatchett in 1801. Hatchett could tell that there was an unknown element in the columbite, but he was not able to isolate it. He named the new element columbium. The fate of columbium took a drastic turn in 1809 when William Hyde Wollaston, an English chemist and physicist, compared the minerals columbite and tantalite ((Fe, Mn)(Ta, Nb)2O6) and declared that columbium was actually the element tantalum. This confusion arose because tantalum and niobium are similar metals, are always found together and are very difficult to isolate.

Niobium was rediscovered and renamed by Heinrich Rose in 1844 when he produced two new acids, niobic acid and pelopic acid, from samples of columbite and tantalite. These acids are very similar to each other and it took another twenty-two years and a Swiss chemist named Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac to prove that these were two distinct chemicals produced from two different elements. Metallic niobium was finally isolated by the Swedish chemist Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand in 1864. Today, niobium is primarily obtained from the minerals columbite and pyrochlore ((Ca, Na)2Nb2O6(O, OH, F)).

Named after Niobe, the daughter of Tantalu. Discovered in 1801 by Hatchett in an ore sent to England. The metal was first prepared in 1864 by Blomstrand, who reduced the chloride by heating it in a hydrogen atmosphere. The name niobium was adopted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemicstry (IUPAC) in 1950 after 100 years of controversy. Many leading chemical societies and government organizations refer to it by this name. Most metallurgists, leading metal societies, and all but one of the leading U.S. commercial producers, however, still refer to the metal as "columbium."

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Eigenschaften

Physikalisch

Atomradius (empirisch)
145 pm Vergleiche Atomradius (empirisch) aller Elemente →
Kovalenzradius
164 pm Vergleiche Kovalenzradius aller Elemente →
Van-der-Waals-Radius
207 pm Vergleiche Van-der-Waals-Radius aller Elemente →
Metallradius
134 pm Vergleiche Metallradius aller Elemente →
Dichte
8570 kg/m³ Vergleiche Dichte aller Elemente →
Molares Volumen
0,0108 L/mol
Aggregatzustand bei Standardbedingungen
Fest Vergleiche Aggregatzustand bei Standardbedingungen aller Elemente →
Schmelzpunkt
2476,85 °C Vergleiche Schmelzpunkt aller Elemente →
Siedepunkt
4743,85 °C Vergleiche Siedepunkt aller Elemente →
Wärmeleitfähigkeit
53,7 W/(m·K) Vergleiche Wärmeleitfähigkeit aller Elemente →
Spezifische Wärmekapazität
0,265 J/(g·K) Vergleiche Spezifische Wärmekapazität aller Elemente →
Molare Wärmekapazität
24,6 J/(mol·K) Vergleiche Molare Wärmekapazität aller Elemente →
Kristallstruktur
Raumzentriert kubisch Vergleiche Kristallstruktur aller Elemente →

Chemisch

Elektronegativität (Pauling)
1,6 Vergleiche Elektronegativität (Pauling) aller Elemente →
Elektronegativität (Allen)
1,41
Elektronenaffinität
0,893 eV
Ionisierungsenergie (1.)
6,75885 eV Vergleiche Ionisierungsenergie (1.) aller Elemente →
Ionisierungsenergie (2.)
14,320049 eV Vergleiche Ionisierungsenergie (2.) aller Elemente →
Ionisierungsenergie (3.)
25,040086 eV Vergleiche Ionisierungsenergie (3.) aller Elemente →
Ionisierungsenergie (4.)
37,611129 eV Vergleiche Ionisierungsenergie (4.) aller Elemente →
Ionisierungsenergie (5.)
50,572974 eV Vergleiche Ionisierungsenergie (5.) aller Elemente →
Oxidationszustände
−3, −1, 0, +1, +2, +3, +4, +5 Vergleiche Oxidationszustände aller Elemente →
Valenzelektronen
5 Vergleiche Valenzelektronen aller Elemente →
Elektronenkonfiguration
[Kr] 5s1 4d4

Thermodynamisch

Schmelzwärme
0,27776338 eV Vergleiche Schmelzwärme aller Elemente →
Verdampfungswärme
7,151371 eV Vergleiche Verdampfungswärme aller Elemente →
Sublimationswärme
7,617764 eV
Atomisierungswärme
7,617764 eV
Atomisierungsenthalpie
7,597036 eV

Nuklear

Protonen
41 Vergleiche Protonen aller Elemente →
Neutronen
52 Vergleiche Neutronen aller Elemente →
Bekannte Isotope
38 Vergleiche Bekannte Isotope aller Elemente →
Stabile Isotope
1 Vergleiche Stabile Isotope aller Elemente →
Stabilstes Isotop
Nb-93
Entdeckungsjahr
1801

Häufigkeit

Häufigkeit (Erdkruste)
20 mg/kg Vergleiche Häufigkeit (Erdkruste) aller Elemente →
Häufigkeit (Ozean)
1 × 10−5 mg/L Vergleiche Häufigkeit (Ozean) aller Elemente →

Kristallstruktur

Gitterkonstante a
330 pm

Elektronische Struktur

Elektronen pro Schale
2, 8, 18, 12, 1 Vergleiche Elektronen pro Schale aller Elemente →

Identifikatoren

CAS-Nummer
7440-03-1 Vergleiche CAS-Nummer aller Elemente →
Termsymbol
6D1/2
InChI
InChI=1S/Nb
InChI-Key
GUCVJGMIXFAOAE-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Elektronenkonfiguration Gemessen

Ionenladung
Protonen 41
Elektronen 41
Ladung Neutral
Konfiguration Nb: 4d⁴ 5s¹
Elektronenkonfiguration
Gemessen
[Kr] 4d⁴ 5s¹
1s² 2s² 2p⁶ 3s² 3p⁶ 3d¹⁰ 4s² 4p⁶ 4d⁴ 5s¹
Orbitaldiagramm
1s
2/2
2s
2/2
2p
6/6
3s
2/2
3p
6/6
4s
2/2
3d
10/10
4p
6/6
5s
1/2 1↑
4d
4/10 4↑
Gesamtelektronen: 41 Ungepaart: 5 ?

Atommodell

Protonen 41
Neutronen 52
Elektronen 41
Massenzahl 93
Stabilität Stabil

Isotope ändern die Neutronenzahl, Masse und Stabilität — nicht die Elektronenkonfiguration eines neutralen Atoms.

Schematisches Atommodell, nicht maßstabsgetreu.

Atomarer Fingerabdruck

Emissions- / Absorptionsspektrum

24 / 24 (22 22 mit Intensität)
Gemessen
Emission Sichtbar: 380–750 nm

Isotopenverteilung

Monoisotopisches Element
Einziges natürlich vorkommendes Isotop: 93 — 100,0000%
93100,0000%MassenzahlNatürliche Häufigkeit (%)
MassenzahlAtommasse (u)Natürliche HäufigkeitHalbwertszeit
93 Stabil92,906373 ± 0,000002100,0000%Stabil
Gemessen

Phase / Zustand

1 atm / 101.325 kPa
Fest 25 °C (298,15 K)

Grund: 2451,8 °C unter Schmelzpunkt (2476,85 °C)

Schmelzpunkt 2476,85 °C
Siedepunkt 4743,85 °C
Unter Schmelzpunkt um 2451,8 °C
0 K Aktuelle Temperatur: 25 °C 6000 K
Phasenzeitlinie

Schematisch, nicht maßstabsgetreu

Fest
Flüssig
Gas
Schmelzen
Sieden
25°C
Fest
Flüssig
Gas
Aktuell

Phasenübergangspunkte

Schmelzpunkt Literatur
2476,85 °C
Siedepunkt Literatur
4743,85 °C
Aktuelle Phase Berechnet
Fest

Übergangsenergien

Schmelzwärme Literatur
0,27776338 eV

Energie benötigt, um 1 mol am Schmelzpunkt zu schmelzen

Verdampfungswärme Literatur
7,151371 eV

Energie benötigt, um 1 mol am Siedepunkt zu verdampfen

Sublimationswärme Literatur
7,617764 eV

Energie benötigt, um 1 mol am Sublimationspunkt zu sublimieren

Dichte

Referenzdichte Literatur
8570 kg/m³

Bei Standardbedingungen

Aktuelle Dichte Berechnet
8570 kg/m³

Bei Standardbedingungen

Atomspektren

10 von 41 angezeigt. Sortiert nach Ionenladung (aufsteigend).

Liniendaten ?

IonLadungGesamtlinienÜbergangswahrscheinlichkeitenNiveau-Bezeichnungen
Nb I 050900
Nb II +115000
Nb III +210800
Nb IV +3819819819
Nb V +41200
NIST Liniendaten →

Niveaudaten ?

IonLadungNiveaus
Nb I 0395
Nb II +1354
Nb III +2189
Nb IV +3183
Nb V +431
Nb VI +5105
Nb VII +632
Nb VIII +72
Nb IX +82
Nb X +92
NIST Niveaudaten →
41 Nb 92.90637

Niobium — Atomorbital-Visualisierer

[Kr]5s14d4
Energieniveaus 2 8 18 12 1
Oxidationszustände -3, -1, 0, +1, +2, +3, +4, +5
HOMO 5s n=5 · l=0 · m=0
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41 Nb 92.90637

Niobium — Kristallstruktur-Visualisierer

Raumzentriert Kubisch · Pearson cI2
Experimentell
Pearson cI2
Koordinationszahl 8
Packungsdichte 68.000%
Niobium — Kristallstruktur-Visualisierer Vorschau
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Ionenradien

LadungKoordinationSpinRadius
+36N/A72 pm
+46N/A68 pm
+48N/A79 pm
+54N/A48 pm
+56N/A64 pm
+57N/A69 pm
+58N/A74 pm

Verbindungen

Nb
92,906 u
Nb
94,907 u
Nb
89,911 u
Nb
93,907 u
Nb
96,908 u
Nb
87,918 u
Nb
88,913 u
Nb
97,910 u
Nb
95,908 u
Nb
92,906 u
Nb
91,907 u
Nb+5
92,906 u
Nb+3
92,906 u
Nb+2
92,906 u

Isotope (1)

Eighteen isotopes of niobium are known. The metal can be isolated from tantalum, and prepared in several ways.

MassenzahlAtommasse (u)Natürliche HäufigkeitHalbwertszeitZerfallsart
93 Stabil92,906373 ± 0,000002100,0000%Stabil
stable
93 Stabil
Atommasse (u) 92,906373 ± 0,000002
Natürliche Häufigkeit 100,0000%
Halbwertszeit Stabil
Zerfallsart
stable

Spektrallinien

Wellenlänge (nm)IntensitätIonenstufeTypÜbergangGenauigkeitQuelle
382.5416 nm5000Nb IVemission4d.5d 3P → 4d.6p 1P*GemessenNIST
382.5694 nm200000Nb IVemission4d.6p 1F* → 4d.6d 3DGemessenNIST
382.5875 nm250000Nb IVemission4d.6p 3P* → 4d.6d 3DGemessenNIST
383.106 nm15000Nb IVemission4d.5d 3D → 4d.6p 1D*GemessenNIST
385.2874 nm60000Nb IVemission4d.6p 3P* → 4d.6d 3DGemessenNIST
385.5325 nm10000Nb IVemission4d.6p 1P* → 4d.6d 3PGemessenNIST
386.9546 nm8000Nb IVemission4d.6p 3P* → 4d.6d 1PGemessenNIST
387.5455 nm100000Nb IVemission4d.5d 3G → 4d.6p 1D*GemessenNIST
388.2203 nm60000Nb IVemission4d.6p 1P* → 4d.6d 1SGemessenNIST
389.8028 nm100000Nb IVemission4d.5d 3S → 4d.6p 3P*GemessenNIST
390.0115 nm25000Nb IVemission4d.6p 3P* → 4d.6d 3DGemessenNIST
391.6922 nm8000Nb IVemission4d.5d 3F → 4d.6p 1F*GemessenNIST
392.1878 nm5000Nb IVemission4d.5d 1P → 4d.6p 3D*GemessenNIST
394.057 nm25000Nb IVemission4d.6p 3P* → 4d.6d 3DGemessenNIST
394.3315 nm20000Nb IVemission4d.5d 3F → 4d.6p 3F*GemessenNIST
398.5759 nm5000Nb IVemission4d.(2D<3/2>).6s 2[3/2] → 4d.6p 1P*GemessenNIST
400.1839 nm4000Nb IVemission4d.6p 3P* → 4d.6d 3DGemessenNIST
403.2233 nm40000Nb IVemission4d.5d 3F → 4d.6p 3D*GemessenNIST
404.998 nm10000Nb IVemission4d.5d 3F → 4d.6p 3F*GemessenNIST
405.2616 nm15000Nb IVemission4d.5d 1P → 4d.6p 1D*GemessenNIST
406.3412 nm200000Nb IVemission4d.5d 3F → 4d.6p 3F*GemessenNIST
406.4694 nmN/ANb IVemission4d.6p 1P* → 4d.6d 1DGemessenNIST
409.6529 nm7000Nb IVemission4d.6p 3P* → 4d.6d 3DGemessenNIST
459.6 nmN/AID 841emission2p 2P* → 2s 2SGemessenNIST

Erweiterte Eigenschaften

Kovalente Radien (Erweitert)

Kovalenzradius (Pyykkö)
147 pm
Kovalenzradius (Pyykkö, doppelt)
125 pm
Kovalenzradius (Pyykkö, dreifach)
116 pm

Van-der-Waals-Radien

Batsanov
215 pm
Alvarez
256 pm
UFF
316,5 pm
MM3
243 pm

Atom- & Metallische Radien

Atomradius (Rahm)
251 pm
Metallradius (C12)
146 pm

Nummerierungsskalen

Mendeleev
48
Pettifor
52
Glawe
53

Elektronegativitätsskalen

Ghosh
0
Miedema
4
Gunnarsson–Lundqvist
4
Robles–Bartolotti
2

Polarisierbarkeit & Dispersion

Dipolpolarisierbarkeit
98 a.u.
Dipolpolarisierbarkeit (Uns.)
8 a.u.
C₆ (Gould–Bučko)
1140 Ha·Bohr6

Miedema-Parameter

Miedema-Molvolumen
10,87 cm3/mol
Miedema-Elektronendichte
4

Lieferrisiko & Wirtschaftlichkeit

Produktionskonzentration
98
Relatives Lieferrisiko
8
Reservenverteilung
97
Politische Stabilität (Top-Produzent)
48
Politische Stabilität (Top-Reserven)
48

Phasenübergänge & Allotrope

Schmelzpunkt2750,15 K
Siedepunkt5014,15 K

Oxidationszustands-Kategorien

−1 extended
+4 extended
+2 extended
+3 extended
+1 extended
0 extended
+5 main
−3 extended

Erweiterte Referenzdaten

Abschirmkonstanten (10)
nOrbitalσ
1s0,8577
2p4,0178
2s10,8748
3d14,753
3p16,3844
3s15,8285
4d29,7624
4p26,9156
4s25,7172
5s35,079
Kristallradien-Details (7)
LadungCNSpinrcrystal (pm)Herkunft
3VI86
4VI82from r^3 vs V plots, estimated,
4VIII93
5IV62calculated,
5VI78
5VII83calculated,
5VIII88
Isotopenzerfallsarten (67)
IsotopModusIntensität
79p—
79B+—
79B+p—
80p—
80B+—
80B+p—
81p—
81B+—
81B+p—
82B+100%
Röntgenstreufaktoren (757)
Energie (eV)f₁f₂
0,5—0,09113
0,5079—0,09258
0,516—0,09406
0,5242—0,09557
0,5325—0,0971
0,5409—0,09865
0,5495—0,10023
0,5582—0,10161
0,5671—0,103
0,5761—0,10441

Zusätzliche Daten

Sources

Sources of this element.

The element is found in niobite (or columbite), niobite-tantalite, parochlore, and euxenite. Large deposits of niobium have been found associated with carbonatites (carbon-silicate rocks), as a constituent of parochlore. Extensive ore reserves are found in Canada, Brazil, Nigeria, Zaire, and in Russia.

Referenzen (1)

Referenzen

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2 Atomic Mass Data Center (AMDC), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Nb

The half-life and atomic mass data was provided by the Atomic Mass Data Center at the International Atomic Energy Agency.

3 IUPAC Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights (CIAAW)
Niobium

Element data are cited from the Atomic weights of the elements (an IUPAC Technical Report). The IUPAC periodic table of elements can be found at https://iupac.org/what-we-do/periodic-table-of-elements/. Additional information can be found within IUPAC publication doi:10.1515/pac-2015-0703 Copyright © 2020 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

4 IUPAC Periodic Table of the Elements and Isotopes (IPTEI)

The information are cited from Pure Appl. Chem. 2018; 90(12): 1833-2092, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0703.

Lizenzhinweis: Copyright (c) 2020 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) contribution within Pubchem is provided under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, unless otherwise stated.
5 Jefferson Lab, U.S. Department of Energy
Niobium

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) is one of 17 national laboratories funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. The lab's primary mission is to conduct basic research of the atom's nucleus using the lab's unique particle accelerator, known as the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF). For more information visit https://www.jlab.org/

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6 Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
Niobium

The periodic table at the LANL (Los Alamos National Laboratory) contains basic element information together with the history, source, properties, use, handling and more. The provenance data may be found from the link under the source name.

7 NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory
Niobium

The periodic table contains NIST's critically-evaluated data on atomic properties of the elements. The provenance data that include data for atomic spectroscopy, X-ray and gamma ray, radiation dosimetry, nuclear physics, and condensed matter physics may be found from the link under the source name. Ref: https://www.nist.gov/pml/atomic-spectra-database

8 PubChem Elements
Niobium

This section provides all form of data related to element Niobium.

9 PubChem Elements
Niobium

The element property data was retrieved from publications.

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