atomic See also:

• WEIGHT

weight 44.1 See also:

• atomic weight 44.1 SCANDIUM [symbol Sc (0=16)]

SCANDIUM [See also:

• SYMBOL (Gr. o-uµ(3oXov, a sign)

symbol Sc (0=16)]  , one of the rare See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth metals . It was isolated in 1879 by L . F, Nilson and was shown by Cleve to be identical with the ekaboron predicted by D . Mendeleeff . The separation of See also:

• SCANDIUM [symbol Sc, atomic weight 44.1 (0=16)]

scandium from See also:

• WOLFRAMITE, or WOLFRAM

wolframite (which contains 0.14-o.16% of rare earths) is given by R . J . See also:

• MEYER, CHRISTIAN ERICH HERMANN VON (18or-1869)
• MEYER, HEINRICH AUGUST WILHELM (1800-1873)
• MEYER, JULIUS LOTHAR (183o-1895)
• MEYER, KONRAD FERDINAND (1825-1898)
• MEYER, VICTOR (1848-1897)
• MEYER, [MARIE] PAUL HYACINTHE (184o- )

Meyer (Zeit, anorg . Chem . 1908, 6o, p . 134), but it seems impossible to obtain a perfectly pure specimen of the See also:

• OXIDE

oxide . The salts of scandium are all colourless, the chloride and bromide corresponding in See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition to Sc2X5'12H20; the fluoride is anhydrous . The sulphate combines with the alkaline sulphates to See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double salts of the type Sc2(SO4)s'3K2SO4 .

A large number of salts, both of in-organic and organic acids, have been described by See also:

• SIR

Sir W . See also:

• CROOKES, SIR WILLIAM (1832– )

Crookes (Phil . Trans . 1908, 209, A. p . 15); those of the fatty acids are in most cases more soluble in See also:

• COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold than in hot See also:

• WATER

water .