Talk:Transition metal

Ca3+

"In fact Ca3+ has an ionisation enthalpy so high that it rarely occurs naturally."

Are you sure? I never, ever heard of naturally occurring Ca3+! Sounds suspicious to me... --malbi

I suspect this is true that it never occurs naturally. I think this paragraph should be reworked; it's too much about calcium and group II and not enough about transition metals. Olin

I went and revised it. Olin

The periodic table of the transition elements

Group	3 (III B)	4 (IV B)	5 (V B)	6 (VI B)	7 (VII B)	8 (VIII B)	9 (VIII B)	10 (VIII B)	11 (I B)	12 (II B)
Period 4	Sc 21	Ti 22	V 23	Cr 24	Mn 25	Fe 26	Co 27	Ni 28	Cu 29	Zn 30
Period 5	Y 39	Zr 40	Nb 41	Mo 42	Tc 43	Ru 44	Rh 45	Pd 46	Ag 47	Cd 48
Period 6	L	Hf 72	Ta 73	W 74	Re 75	Os 76	Ir 77	Pt 78	Au 79	Hg 80
Period 7	A	Rf 104	Db 105	Sg 106	Bh 107	Hs 108	Mt 109	Ds 110	Rg 111	Cn 112

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Reference named "PTSS":

• From Periodic table: Scerri, pp. 392−401
• From Period 1 element: Eric Scerri. 2020, The Periodic Table, Its Story and Its Significance, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, New York, ISBN 978-0190914363. pp. 392–401, 407–420.

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