Periodic table / Other non-metals
15Phosphorus
Phosphorus is an other non-metal in group 15, period 3. At 25 °C it is a solid.
- Symbol
- P
- Atomic number
- 15 protons in the nucleus
- Standard atomic weight
- 30.974 ± 0.001
- Electron configuration
- [Ne] 3s2 3p3
- Electrons in each shell
- 2, 8, 5
- Group, period, block
- 15, 3, p
- Family
- Other non-metals
- State at 25 °C
- solid
- Electronegativity
- 2.19 (Pauling scale)
- First ionisation energy
- 1011.8 kJ/mol (10.486686 eV)
Where these numbers come from
Atomic weight: IUPAC CIAAW, abridged standard atomic weights 2024. Electron configuration and ionisation energy: NIST Atomic Spectra Database. Family, state and electronegativity: PubChem. See Sources. Melting points, boiling points and densities are left out for now: published values differ between sources, and we will add them once each has been checked.