| Símbolo | Cs |
| Número atómico | 55 |
| Grupo | 1 (Alcalino) |
| Período | 6 |
| Bloque | s |
| Clasificación | Alcalino |
| Apariencia | Silvery gold |
| Color | Plata |
| Número de protones | 55 p+ |
| Número de neutrones | 78 n0 |
| Número de electrones | 55 e- |
| Fase en STP | Sólido |
| Densidad | 1.93 g/cm3 |
| Peso atómico | 132.905 u |
| Punto de fusión | 301.7 K 28.55 °C 83.39 °F |
| Punto de ebullición | 944 K 670.85 °C 1239.53 °F |
| Entalpía de vaporización | 67.74 kJ/mol |
| Electronegatividad (Escala de Pauling) | 0.79 |
| Afinidad electrónica | 45.505 kJ/mol |
| Estado de oxidación | −1, +1 (a strongly basic oxide) |
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| Descubrimiento | Robert Bunsen, Gustav Kirchhoff (1860) |
| Primer aislamiento | Carl Setterberg (1882) |
Descubrimiento de cesio In 1860, German chemist Robert Bunsen and physicist Gustav Kirchhoff discovered caesium in the mineral water from Dürkheim, Germany. Because of the bright blue lines in the emission spectrum, they derived the name from the Latin word caesius, meaning sky-blue. Caesium was the first element to be discovered with a spectroscope, which had been invented by Bunsen and Kirchhoff only a year previously. In 1967, acting on Einstein's proof that the speed of light is the most-constant dimension in the universe, the International System of Units used two specific wave counts from an emission spectrum of caesium-133 to co-define the second and the metre. Since then, caesium has been widely used in highly accurate atomic clocks. | |