Melting Point

The melting point is that temperature at which solid and liquid can coexist in equilibrium under one atmosphere pressure. Melting points are reported in kelvins--on the absolute or thermodynamic temperature scale.

Melting points of the elements were obtained from the 81th edition of the CRC HANDBOOK OF CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS, D. R. Lide, Ed., CRC Press, Inc., 2000. Data from the CRC HANDBOOK OF CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS was collected online at:

http://www.knovel.com/knovel2/Toc.jsp?BookID=34 (accessed July, 2002)