Symbol
In
Group Number
13
Rank: 5 (Overall)
0
17
👆🏻
Period Number
5
Rank: 3 (Overall)
2
7
👆🏻
Block
p block
Element Family
Post-Transition
CAS Number
7440746
Rank: 17 (Overall)
7429905
54386242
👆🏻
Space Group Name
I4/mmm
Space Group Number
139.00
Rank: 11 (Overall)
11
276
👆🏻
Interesting Facts
- Luster of Indium is bright in nature.
- Reich and richer were looking for thallium in zinc metal and they discovered Indium metal.
Sources
Mining, Ores of metals
History
Who Discovered
Ferdinand Reich and Hieronymous Theodor Richter
Discovery
In 1863
Abundance
Abundance In Universe
0.00 %
Rank: 29 (Overall)
0
0.11
👆🏻
Abundance In Sun
0.00 %
Rank: 23 (Overall)
0
0.1
👆🏻
Abundance In Meteorites
0.00 %
Rank: 45 (Overall)
0
22
👆🏻
Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.00 %
Rank: 45 (Overall)
1E-37
8.1
👆🏻
Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %
Rank: 43 (Overall)
0
1.1
👆🏻
Abundance In Humans
0.00 %
Rank: 16 (Overall)
0
1.4
👆🏻
Uses & Benefits
- It is used to produce indium tin oxide (ITO), it is used in manufacturing touch screens, flat screen TVs and solar panels.
- Its nitride, phosphide and antimonide are used in transistors and microchips.
Industrial Uses
Aerospace Industry, Automobile Industry
Medical Uses
Medical Research
Other Uses
Alloys, In Nuclear Reactors
Biological Properties
Toxicity
Non Toxic
Present in Human Body
✔
✘
68% - Post Transition Metals Metals have it !
In Blood
0.00 Blood/mg dm-3
Rank: 40 (Overall)
0
1970
👆🏻
In Bone
0.00 p.p.m.
Rank: 41 (Overall)
0
170000
👆🏻
Melting Point
156.61 °C
Rank: 74 (Overall)
-38.83
3410
👆🏻
Boiling Point
2,000.00 °C
Rank: 52 (Overall)
0
5660
👆🏻
Appearance
Physical State
Solid
Color
Silvery Gray
Luster
Lustrous
Hardness
Mohs Hardness
1.20
Rank: 21 (Overall)
0.2
8.5
👆🏻
Brinell Hardness
8.80 MPa
Rank: 66 (Overall)
0.14
3490
👆🏻
Vickers Hardness
0.01 MPa
Rank: 73 (Overall)
0
3920
👆🏻
Speed of Sound
1,215.00 m/s
Rank: 69 (Overall)
818
16200
👆🏻
Optical Properties
Refractive Index
3.41
Rank: 1 (Overall)
0.155
3.41
👆🏻
Reflectivity
83.00 %
Rank: 6 (Overall)
5
97
👆🏻
Allotropes
✔
✘
12% - Post Transition Metals Metals
α Allotropes
-
β Allotropes
-
γ Allotropes
-
Chemical Formula
In
Isotopes
Known Isotopes
35
Rank: 4 (Overall)
0
38
👆🏻
Electronegativity
Pauling Electronegativity
1.78
Rank: 17 (Overall)
0
2.6
👆🏻
Sanderson Electronegativity
2.14
Rank: 9 (Overall)
0.22
2.56
👆🏻
Allred Rochow Electronegativity
1.49
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0.86
1.9
👆🏻
Mulliken-Jaffe Electronegativity
1.76
Rank: 18 (Overall)
0.62
2.48
👆🏻
Allen Electronegativity
1.66
Rank: 21 (Overall)
0.659
2.7
👆🏻
Electropositivity
Pauling Electropositivity
2.22
Rank: 38 (Overall)
1.46
3.3
👆🏻
Ionization Energies
1st Energy Level
558.30 kJ/mol
Rank: 69 (Overall)
375.7
26130
👆🏻
2nd Energy Level
1,820.70 kJ/mol
Rank: 19 (Overall)
392.8
28750
👆🏻
3rd Energy Level
2,704.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 40 (Overall)
392.8
34230
👆🏻
4th Energy Level
5,210.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 26 (Overall)
375.7
37066
👆🏻
5th Energy Level
5,580.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 62 (Overall)
392
97510
👆🏻
6th Energy Level
5,580.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 76 (Overall)
1007
105800
👆🏻
7th Energy level
5,580.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 66 (Overall)
1007
114300
👆🏻
8th Energy Level
5,580.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 65 (Overall)
730
125300
👆🏻
9th Energy Level
5,580.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 63 (Overall)
1007
134700
👆🏻
10th Energy Level
5,580.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 63 (Overall)
392
144300
👆🏻
11th Energy Level
5,580.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 68 (Overall)
392
169988
👆🏻
12th Energy Level
5,580.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 70 (Overall)
0
189368
👆🏻
13th Energy Level
5,580.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 59 (Overall)
1007
76015
👆🏻
14th Energy Level
558.30 kJ/mol
Rank: 87 (Overall)
380
86450
👆🏻
15th Energy Level
55,800.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 59 (Overall)
33000
100700
👆🏻
16th Energy Level
558.30 kJ/mol
Rank: 82 (Overall)
375.7
109480
👆🏻
17th Energy Level
558.30 kJ/mol
Rank: 73 (Overall)
375.7
122200
👆🏻
18th Energy Level
5,580.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 61 (Overall)
0
134810
👆🏻
19th Energy Level
558.30 kJ/mol
Rank: 71 (Overall)
375.7
148700
👆🏻
20th Energy Level
558.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 65 (Overall)
0
171200
👆🏻
21st Energy Level
558.30 kJ/mol
Rank: 75 (Overall)
375.7
179100
👆🏻
22nd Energy Level
558.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 60 (Overall)
330
184900
👆🏻
23rd Energy Level
5,581.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 24 (Overall)
357.6
198800
👆🏻
24th Energy Level
558.30 kJ/mol
Rank: 64 (Overall)
297.3
195200
👆🏻
25th Energy Level
558.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 62 (Overall)
0
121900
👆🏻
26th Energy Level
558.30 kJ/mol
Rank: 70 (Overall)
357.6
127700
👆🏻
27th Energy Level
558.30 kJ/mol
Rank: 66 (Overall)
0
133800
👆🏻
28th Energy Level
558.30 kJ/mol
Rank: 70 (Overall)
297.3
139800
👆🏻
29th Energy Level
558.30 kJ/mol
Rank: 72 (Overall)
0
148100
👆🏻
30th Energy Level
558.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 66 (Overall)
0
154500
👆🏻
Electrochemical Equivalent
1.43 g/amp-hr
Rank: 52 (Overall)
0.16812
8.3209
👆🏻
Electron Work Function
4.12 eV
Rank: 31 (Overall)
2.14
6
👆🏻
Other Chemical Properties
Ionization, Radioactive Isotopes, Radioactivity, Solubility
Atomic Number
49
Rank: 63 (Overall)
3
117
👆🏻
Electron Configuration
[Kr] 4d10 5s2 5p1
Crystal Structure
Tetragonal (TETR)
Crystal Lattice
Atom
Number of Protons
49
Rank: 62 (Overall)
3
117
👆🏻
Number of Neutrons
66
Rank: 46 (Overall)
4
285
👆🏻
Number of Electrons
49
Rank: 62 (Overall)
3
117
👆🏻
Radius of an Atom
Atomic Radius
167.00 pm
Rank: 26 (Overall)
0
348
👆🏻
Covalent Radius
142.00 pm
Rank: 44 (Overall)
0
260
👆🏻
Van der Waals Radius
193.00 pm
Rank: 38 (Overall)
0
348
👆🏻
Atomic Weight
114.82 amu
Rank: 57 (Overall)
6.94
294
👆🏻
Atomic Volume
15.70 cm3/mol
Rank: 48 (Overall)
1.39
71.07
👆🏻
Adjacent Atomic Numbers
Previous Element
Next Element
Valence Electron Potential
54.00 (-eV)
Rank: 26 (Overall)
0
392.42
👆🏻
Lattice Constant
325.23 pm
Rank: 59 (Overall)
0
891.25
👆🏻
Lattice Angles
π/2, π/2, π/2
Lattice C/A Ratio
1.56
Rank: 44 (Overall)
0.423
1.9
👆🏻
Density
Density At Room Temperature
7.31 g/cm3
Rank: 60 (Overall)
0.534
40.7
👆🏻
Density When Liquid (at m.p.)
7.02 g/cm3
Rank: 62 (Overall)
0.512
41
👆🏻
Tensile Strength
2.50 MPa
Rank: 51 (Overall)
0.1
11000
👆🏻
Viscosity
0.00
Rank: 25 (Overall)
1.5E-05
0.0035
👆🏻
Vapor Pressure
Vapor Pressure at 1000 K
0.01 (Pa)
Rank: 11 (Overall)
0
121
👆🏻
Vapor Pressure at 2000 K
0.00 (Pa)
Rank: 24 (Overall)
0
774
👆🏻
Elasticity properties
Shear Modulus
18.00 GPa
Rank: 46 (Overall)
1.3
222
👆🏻
Bulk Modulus
46.90 GPa
Rank: 27 (Overall)
0
462
👆🏻
Young's Modulus
11.00 GPa
Rank: 66 (Overall)
0
528
👆🏻
Poisson Ratio
0.44
Rank: 3 (Overall)
0.032
0.47
👆🏻
Other Mechanical Properties
Ductile, Malleable
Magnetic Characteristics
Specific Gravity
7.31
Rank: 58 (Overall)
0.53
4500
👆🏻
Magnetic Ordering
Diamagnetic
Permeability
0.00 H/m
Rank: 17 (Overall)
1.25643E-06
0.0063
👆🏻
Susceptibility
0.00
Rank: 34 (Overall)
-0.000166
200000
👆🏻
Electrical Properties
Electrical Property
Conductor
Resistivity
83.70 nΩ·m
Rank: 34 (Overall)
0.1
961
👆🏻
Electrical Conductivity
0.12 106/cm Ω
Rank: 20 (Overall)
0
0.63
👆🏻
Electron Affinity
28.90 kJ/mol
Rank: 37 (Overall)
0
222.8
👆🏻
Specific Heat
0.23 J/(kg K)
Rank: 27 (Overall)
0.1
3.6
👆🏻
Molar Heat Capacity
26.74 J/mol·K
Rank: 32 (Overall)
13.1
62.7
👆🏻
Thermal Conductivity
81.80 W/m·K
Rank: 21 (Overall)
0
429
👆🏻
Critical Temperature
429.75 K
Rank: 74 (Overall)
26.3
3695
👆🏻
Thermal Expansion
32.10 µm/(m·K)
Rank: 9 (Overall)
4.5
97
👆🏻
Enthalpy
Enthalpy of Vaporization
226.40 kJ/mol
Rank: 61 (Overall)
7.32
799.1
👆🏻
Enthalpy of Fusion
3.28 kJ/mol
Rank: 62 (Overall)
2.1
35.23
👆🏻
Enthalpy of Atomization
242.70 kJ/mol
Rank: 54 (Overall)
61.5
837
👆🏻
Standard Molar Entropy
57.80 J/mol.K
Rank: 27 (Overall)
9.5
198.1
👆🏻