Elements / 39
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Yttrium
Transition metal · d-block · ring O · spoke 3
Yttrium is element 39, a transition metal. It sits on ring O (period 5) on spoke 3. Follow that spoke toward the center and out again to find its chemical relatives.
Properties
| Density | 4.47 g/cm³ | Terrain → |
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| Melting point | 1,799 K · 1,526 °C | Terrain → |
| Boiling point | 3,203 K · 2,930 °C | Terrain → |
| Electronegativity | 1.22 | Terrain → |
| First ionization energy | 600 kJ/mol | Terrain → |
| Atomic weight | 88.9058 u | Terrain → |
| Crustal abundance | 33 ppm | Terrain → |
| Discovered | 1794 | Terrain → |
Values from open reference data; see sources. "Terrain" opens that property as a 3D landscape across the whole spiral.
Two things you might not know
- Johan Gadolin identified it in 1789 in a strange, heavy black ore that Arrhenius had found in an old quarry in 1787.
- One of four elements named after the same Swedish village. Used in the red phosphors of older TV screens.
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Spoke 3
Ring O (period 5)
Play with Yttrium
Watch it fly into its seat, or raise the whole spiral into a landscape and see where it peaks.