Electronic configuration of plutonium

94Pu
Plutonium
[Rn] 5f6 7s2
Full: 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 3d10 4s2 4p6 4d10 4f14 5s2 5p6 5d10 5f6 6s2 6p6 7s2

Electrons in each shell

2K shell8L shell18M shell32N shell24O shell8P shell2Q shell

Plutonium has 94 electrons arranged as 2, 8, 18, 32, 24, 8, 2 across 7 shells, which is why it sits in period 7.

How to write it

Start from the previous noble gas core, written in square brackets, then add the remaining electrons in filling order. For plutonium that gives [Rn] 5f6 7s2.

Plutonium at a glance

Atomic number94
SymbolPu
Atomic mass244 u
Groupf-block (no group number)
Period7
Blockf-block
CategoryActinide
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