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Everyday Use
Scandium is used during the day without people even knowing it. Aluminum- Scandium is used for sports equipment like golf iron shafts, bicycle frames, baseball bats, and fishing rods. Also, this element is used in mercury vapor lamps and very little scandium sulfate is used to improve crops like corn.
What Scandium actually is
Scandium is a very light silvery-white metal that can be turned into a slightly tinged yellow or pink when exposed to air. Scandium is almost as light as aluminum. But it had a much higher melting point. Its melting point is 1539.0 Celsius. This element is very expensive and won't be used very often besides a few things. Pure Scandium is around $1400 dollars for 100g.
Discovery
Lars F. Nilson in 1879 in Sweden. He applied heat to the nitrate and found results that proved a new element was found.
Abundance
Scandium is not really found in nature. Rare minerals have been spotted only in Scandinavia and Madagascar. The abundance of it in the Earth's crust is 22 parts per million by weight. The abundance of it in the solar system is 40 parts per billion by weight.
Reactivity
Scandium is found combined in over 800 minerals. It is reactive with water, the Halogens, and with acids. When this metal is reacting it usually either dissolves or burns.
Interesting Facts
- existence was originally predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev ten years before.
- only 99.9% pure scandium wasn't isolated until 1960.
- is the fiftieth most abundant element on Earth, but is the 23rd most abundant element in the Sun
- Most of scandium's radioactive isotopes have half-lives less than two minutes.
- Only three mines currently extract scandium from ore.
Works Cited
Duncan, Richard D. Elements of Faith: Faith Facts and Learning Lessons from the Periodic Table. Green Forest, AR: Master, 2008. Print.
"Chemical Elements.com - Scandium (Sc)." Chemical Elements.com - Scandium (Sc). N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
"Scandium Element Facts." Chemicool. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
"Scandium: Reactions of Elements." Scandium»reactions of Elements [WebElements Periodic Table]. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
Gray, Theodore W., and Nick Mann. The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2009. Print.
"Scandium Facts." Scandium Facts. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
Scandium is used during the day without people even knowing it. Aluminum- Scandium is used for sports equipment like golf iron shafts, bicycle frames, baseball bats, and fishing rods. Also, this element is used in mercury vapor lamps and very little scandium sulfate is used to improve crops like corn.
What Scandium actually is
Scandium is a very light silvery-white metal that can be turned into a slightly tinged yellow or pink when exposed to air. Scandium is almost as light as aluminum. But it had a much higher melting point. Its melting point is 1539.0 Celsius. This element is very expensive and won't be used very often besides a few things. Pure Scandium is around $1400 dollars for 100g.
Discovery
Lars F. Nilson in 1879 in Sweden. He applied heat to the nitrate and found results that proved a new element was found.
Abundance
Scandium is not really found in nature. Rare minerals have been spotted only in Scandinavia and Madagascar. The abundance of it in the Earth's crust is 22 parts per million by weight. The abundance of it in the solar system is 40 parts per billion by weight.
Reactivity
Scandium is found combined in over 800 minerals. It is reactive with water, the Halogens, and with acids. When this metal is reacting it usually either dissolves or burns.
Interesting Facts
- existence was originally predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev ten years before.
- only 99.9% pure scandium wasn't isolated until 1960.
- is the fiftieth most abundant element on Earth, but is the 23rd most abundant element in the Sun
- Most of scandium's radioactive isotopes have half-lives less than two minutes.
- Only three mines currently extract scandium from ore.
Works Cited
Duncan, Richard D. Elements of Faith: Faith Facts and Learning Lessons from the Periodic Table. Green Forest, AR: Master, 2008. Print.
"Chemical Elements.com - Scandium (Sc)." Chemical Elements.com - Scandium (Sc). N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
"Scandium Element Facts." Chemicool. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
"Scandium: Reactions of Elements." Scandium»reactions of Elements [WebElements Periodic Table]. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
Gray, Theodore W., and Nick Mann. The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2009. Print.
"Scandium Facts." Scandium Facts. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
