Rhenium is element 75, a transition metal of the d block, in group 7, period 6. Its ground-state configuration is [Xe] 4f14 5d5 6s2, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
It was discovered in 1925, by Noddack, Tackeet Berg.
Name origin: Rhenus, the Latin name for the river Rhine.
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