
Transition metal | Definition, Properties, Elements, & Facts - Britannica
Nov 11, 2025 · The transition metals may be subdivided according to the electronic structures of their atoms into three main transition series, called the first, second, and third transition series, and two …
Transition metal - Discovery, Properties, Uses | Britannica
Nov 11, 2025 · The most abundant transition metal in Earth’s solid crust is iron, which is fourth among all elements and second (to aluminum) among metals in crustal abundance. The elements titanium, …
Transition metal - Elements, Series, Properties | Britannica
Nov 11, 2025 · Transition metal - Elements, Series, Properties: Although the transition metals have many general chemical similarities, each one has a detailed chemistry of its own.
Transition metal - Enzymes, Catalysis, Co-factors | Britannica
Nov 11, 2025 · Several transition metals are important to the chemistry of living systems, the most familiar examples being iron, cobalt, copper, and molybdenum.
Periodic table - Elements, Groups, Blocks | Britannica
Oct 27, 2025 · It is the successive occupancy of these five 3 d orbitals by their complement of ten electrons that characterizes the ten elements of the iron-group transition series.
Vanadium | Facts, Industrial, Medical, & Automotive Applications ...
Oct 14, 2025 · The transition metals may be subdivided according to the electronic structures of their atoms into three main transition series, called the first, second, and third transition series, and two …
Technetium | Radioactive, Synthetic, Transition Metal | Britannica
technetium (Tc), chemical element, synthetic radioactive metal of Group 7 (VIIb) of the periodic table, the first element to be artificially produced.
Abundance of the elements | chemistry | Britannica
The most abundant transition metal in Earth’s solid crust is iron, which is fourth among all elements and second (to aluminum) among metals in crustal abundance.
Chemical Element, Uses in Electronics, & Medicine - Britannica
Nov 19, 2025 · A major use of yttrium is in high-temperature superconducting ceramics, such as YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7, which has a superconducting transition temperature of 93 K (−180 °C, or −292 °F) for …
lanthanum summary | Britannica
lanthanum, Metallic chemical element, one of the transition elements, chemical symbol La, atomic number 57. It was discovered in 1839, and its name derives from the Greek for “to lie hidden.”