Scandium
Escandio (Sc, Z=21)
- Date
- 1879 · confidence high
- Place
- Uppsala, Sweden
- Credited to
- Lars Fredrik Nilson
- People
- 👤 Lars Fredrik Nilson1840–1899
- Field
- Matter & energy
What was discovered
Nilson detected it in euxenite and gadolinite; Cleve recognised that it matched the 'eka-boron' predicted by Mendeleev.
The third element predicted by Mendeleev to be confirmed.
What it led to
- Confirmation of Mendeleev's periodic table
- Aerospace aluminium-scandium alloys
- Metal-halide lamps
Built on
- Periodic table (1869)
- Rare-earth chemistry
Made possible
- Al-Sc alloys
- Scandium vapour lamps