Yttrium Research Paper

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Yttrium is element 39 on the periodic table. Its atomic mass is 88.9059 and the complete electron configuration is 2-8-18-9-2. Although it is a transition metal, located in group 3 on the periodic table, it forms only one ion, with a +3 charge. Yttrium was discovered by Johan Gadolin in 1789 and is an iron gray color. In 1787, Carl Axel Arrhenius, who was an army lieutenant as well as a part-time chemist, found a heavy black rock near Ytterby, which is located in Sweden. He thought it had tungsten in it, and sent it to other chemists for it to be analyzed. Gadolin then found a new oxide in the sample and published this information in 1794. Anders Gustaf Ekeberg was the one who confirmed the published material, and named the oxide yttria. Four

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