is in coordination numbers between six and twelve,
which we learn means that scandium compounds
can form ionic bonds with many other atoms at a time,
nothing to do with astrological favorability.
These lively little guys swing with polymers.
Dmitri Mendeleev had predicted an element with the chemical properties of scandium,
and had called it ekaboron.
Lars Fredrik Nilson named it scandium
after the Latin name for Scandinavia.
Dmitri Mendeleev had predicted an element with the chemical properties of scandium, and had called it ekaboron. Lars Fredrik Nilson named it scandium after the Latin name for Scandinavia.
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