{"id":2812,"date":"2026-03-06T19:24:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:24:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:24:02","slug":"scandium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/scandium\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Scandium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scandium is a silvery white transition metal found in trace amounts in rare minerals and often recovered as a byproduct of other mining operations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Scandium<\/strong> | It is lightweight, has good strength to weight ratio in alloys and exhibits typical transition metal chemistry with +3 oxidation state predominating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Scandium<\/strong> | Used in high performance aluminum scandium alloys for aerospace and sporting goods and in metal halide lamps for high intensity lighting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Scandium<\/strong> | Stable isotope Sc 45 is natural; scandium compounds are of low abundance and handled with standard industrial precautions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light, rare transition metal used in aerospace alloys and lighting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}