A Visual Encyclopedia of the Periodic Table

59 Transition Metals In 1774, Swedish chemist Johan Gottlieb Gahn discovered manganese by reacting manganese dioxide with charco ...

60 Most of the iron on our planet is locked away in Earth’s hot, molten core. This element is widely found in rocks worldwide, a ...

61 Transition Metals This steel body resists rusting. Iron filings and magnet These small grains of pure iron are magnetic and a ...

Steelmaking A stream of red-hot, liquid metal pours from a furnace at a steelmaking workshop. This is the end of a long process ...

Steel is an alloy of iron that contains about two per cent carbon and some other elements. The carbon locks all the atoms togeth ...

64 Transition Metals Forms Medieval German miners often mistook ores of cobalt for precious metals. When they tried to purify th ...

65 that can be used to make a permanent magnet. Large permanent magnets are made from a tough alloy of cobalt, nickel, and alumi ...

66 Transition Metals Forms Nickel is named after Old Nick, a demonic spirit from Christian lore that was believed to live underg ...

67 Transition Metals them look like silver – a trick still used to make inexpensive ornamental objects. Nickel is also mixed wit ...

68 Transition Metals Forms Copper is a soft, bendy metal that is an excellent conductor of electricity and heat. Although it is ...

69 Transition Metals be magnetic as and when they are needed. They can be much more powerful than normal magnets and can lift he ...

Copper wires Not much thicker than a human hair, these copper wires are twisted together and woven into a tight bundle. One of t ...

Copper is a very good conductor of electricity, but not the best; silver is better. However, copper is more widely used because ...

72 Transition Metals Zinc Zn 30 30 30 35 State: Solid Discovery: 1746 Zinc was used in India and China hundreds of years before ...

73 range of applications. For example, a compound of zinc and oxygen called zinc oxide is used in medical tape and sunscreen. Zi ...

74 Transition Metals Forms Yttrium Y 39 The samples of rock brought back from the Moon by astronauts in NASA’s Apollo missions c ...

75 Transition Metals This fabric mantle holds the hot flame inside. In 1828, the German chemist Friedrich Wöhler became the firs ...

76 Transition Metals 40 40 51 State: Solid Zirconium Discovery: 1789 Zr 40 This element is named after the mineral zircon, which ...

77 Transition Metals 41 41 52 State: Solid Niobium Discovery: 1801 Nb 41 Niobium is so similar to the metal tantalum that the tw ...

78 Transition Metals Molybdenum Mo 42 Forms Uses Molybdenum gets its unusual name from the Greek word molybdos, which means “lea ...