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Sc Scandium

Discovery: 1879
21 21 24 State: Solid
Transition Metals Greasy texture Euxenite amounts of scandium.
Forms
These crystals
contain only tiny

The silvery colour
of this metal turns
yellow in the air. Laboratory sample
of pure scandium

Gadolinite

Uses MiG-29 aircraft

The scandium iodide
This lightweight alloy gas inside the tube glows
handle does not bend.
with a bright bluish light.

Some high-speed jets
Metal halide lamp have a fuselage made
of scandium alloys.
Lacrosse stick

A soft and lightweight metal, scandium is also contain small amounts of many other rare
similar to aluminium. It is spread so thinly metals, such as cerium and yttrium. Scandium
in Earth’s rocks that it is very difficult to collect mixed with aluminium makes a strong alloy,
a large amount of this element. Scandium is only which is used in lightweight equipment for
used for specialist applications. Its main ores are sports, such as lacrosse, and to make high-
54 the minerals gadolinite and euxenite, which speed jets, such as the MiG-29.

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