Technetium
Tc96.90636 g/mol Calculated
Also called panormium, Tc, masurium and eka-manganese.
The lightest element with no stable form at all, made in reactors. As technetium-99m, with a six-hour half-life, it is the tracer in many nuclear medicine scans. Element 43.
Sources and notes
- The introductionfrom sourceMoleculeFinder curated
- Other namesfrom sourceWikidataIts English label and aliases on Wikidata.
- Formula and weightcomputedPubChem
- 2D drawingcomputedPubChem structure, drawn by RDKit
Where you encounter it
A pure element or an engineered material, rather than an ingredient in a product.
Sources and notes
- The line abovefrom sourceMoleculeFinder curatedFrom the group the molecule belongs to.
Properties and sources
Calculated by PubChem
- Molecular formula
- Tc
- Molecular weight
- 96.90636 g/mol
Groups it belongs to
- Category
- Element & material
- Family
- Chemical elements
- Size
- Under 100 g/mol
SMILES
[Tc]PubChem CID 23957 · Wikidata Q1054 · InChIKey GKLVYJBZJHMRIY-UHFFFAOYSA-N · Data refreshed
Questions
- What is Technetium?
- The lightest element with no stable form at all, made in reactors. As technetium-99m, with a six-hour half-life, it is the tracer in many nuclear medicine scans. Element 43.
- What kind of molecule is Technetium?
- Technetium has the formula Tc and a molecular weight of 96.906 g/mol. MoleculeFinder files it under chemical elements, in the element & material group. from sourcefrom sourcefrom sourcefrom source
- What else is Technetium called?
- Technetium is also called panormium, Tc, masurium and eka-manganese. from source
Sources and notes
- Calculated valuescomputedPubChemComputed from the structure, so no laboratory conditions apply; complexity is PubChem's own structural score.
- Data refreshedfrom sourceMoleculeFinder2026-11-09