Nilson decided to call the element scandium, after Scandinavia. If I were him, I would have called it Mendeleevwasright, or possibly Holycrapine, but I suppose scandium is the name we’re stuck with.

The silvery metal scandium can be made into a superconductor without having to be mixed with other substances, and this occurs at higher temperatures than for any other element. The process still ...

But scandium is often grouped with the lanthanides as one of the rare earth elements.] KESTENBAUM: Add a dash of scandium to other metals; you get something very strong and very light.

Only six tonnes of scandium are produced worldwide each year, making it an expensive and low-volume resource (£23,000 per kilogramme in 2014). Read more about scandium production. Scandium is a ...

The Clark Number for scandium - that is, the percentage of the Earth's crust that is made up of that one element - is usually estimated at 20 ppm, or 20 grammes per tonne.

A new radioactive version of the element scandium has been produced in Australia's OPAL reactor for the first time. Scandium-47 has the potential for theranostic use, that is, both as a therapeutic ...

What about scandium in bicycles, or tantalum in cell phones? There’s a helpful illustration accompanying each element found in nature. Keith Enevoldsen // CC BY-SA 4.0 ...

Software engineer Keith Enevoldsen designed the interactive Periodic Table of Elements, in Pictures and Words, with common uses for elements.

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