Scandium Definition

skăndē-əm
noun
A rare, silvery-white, metallic chemical element occurring with various rare-earth elements, used to produce high-intensity light sources, etc.: symbol, Sc; at. no. 21
Webster's New World

(physics) The only stable isotope of scandium, 4521Sc, having twenty-one protons and twenty-four neutrons.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • atomic number 21
  • sc

Origin of Scandium

  • From Latin Scandia Scandinavia

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Scandia +"Ž -ium

    From Wiktionary

Scandium Sentence Examples

  • Where was platinum, palladium, scandium, coal or peanuts slacking off?

  • In 1878 Marignac, having subjected Mosander's erbia, obtained from gadolinite, to a careful examination, announced the presence of a new element, ytterbium; this discovery was confirmed by Nilson, who in the following year discovered another element, scandium, in Marignac's ytterbia.

  • These three he called ekaboron, ekaaluminium, and ekasilicon; and his prophecy was completely vindicated within fifteen years by the discovery of gallium in 1871, scandium in 1879, and germanium in 1886.

  • Scandium possesses great historical interest, for Cleve showed that it was one of the elements predicted by Mendeleeff about ten years previously from considerations based on his periodic classification of the elements (see Element).

  • The salts of scandium are all colourless, the chloride and bromide corresponding in composition to Sc 2 X 6.12H 2 0; the fluoride is anhydrous.

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