#transition metals

[real-average-metal-from-ec]

yk what?

do you want to atone for your sins in emore empire?

if you pay me about 3$ i'll free you from fluorine. (we still might jail you if you commit murdery, assault, manipulating, or robbery)

no.. i cant live without murder, all my metal homies know what im talking about

[applecarb]

Periodic Table Stamps - Period 4 Transition Metals

Made by me ☆ f2u + credits not required but appreciated ☆ template source

[materialsscienceandengineering]

A new organometallic compound challenges a fundamental principle of textbook chemistry

For more than a century, the well-known 18-electron rule has guided the field of organometallic chemistry. Now, researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), in collaboration with scientists from Germany, Russia, and Japan, have successfully synthesized a novel organometallic compound that challenges this longstanding principle. They have created a stable 20-electron derivative of ferrocene, an iron-based metal-organic complex, which could lead to exciting possibilities in chemical science. "For many transition metal complexes, they are most stable when surrounded by 18 formal valence electrons. This is a chemical rule of thumb on which many key discoveries in catalysis and materials science are based," said Dr. Satoshi Takebayashi, lead author of the paper published in Nature Communications.

Read more.

[mineralsrocksandfossiltalks]

Monday's Mineral: Nickel

Nickel is metal that has been known for thousands of years just like gold and silver. Pure nickel has a silvery-white color with a little bit of gold coloring thrown into the mix. It has a shiny, metallic luster (as all metals do) and is opaque. It has a hardness of 4, making it harder than both gold and silver. This means nickel can scratch both of those metals. Another really cool physical property is that nickel is ferromagnetic. This is very important.

Nickel is much more common than either gold or silver. It can be found in its pure elemental form or in mineral ores. Nickel ores include laterite, a type of soil deposit that changes composition depending on what minerals are present. They are typically rich in iron and aluminum which results in a rusty red color as the iron oxidizes. Laterite is formed in hot, wet, tropical areas.

Laterite deposits were the main source of nickel ores but that changed when nickel was found in sulfide deposits. Laterites that contain nickel are limonite (Fe, Ni)O(OH),

and garnierite (Mg,Ni)3Si4O10(OH)2·H2O (approximately, it varies A LOT)

Sulfide ores that contain nickel include pentlandite (Fe,Ni)9S8,

pyrrhotite (Fe9−xNixS8),

millerite (NiS),

and niccolite (NiAs).

Just like gold and silver, nickel has a face-centered cubic structure.

You'll also notice that in many ores, nickel is found alongside another metal: iron. These two metals are like the best of friends. In fact, the two metals are the main components of the Earth's inner and outer cores.

Because these two metals are ferromagnetic, they play a very important role in protecting our planet from dangerous solar energy. The outer core in liquid, and that liquid nickel/iron mixture creates the magnetosphere or the Earth's magnetic field. That magnetic field protects the Earth against solar winds that would strip our atmosphere from us. (Ask Mars, it's not a good deal). Thanks to that magnetosphere, we get some pretty spectacular light shows in the sky if you know where to look too.

Earth is not the only space object to contain a lot of nickel. Meteoric nickel (found with meteoric iron) makes up a vast number or meteorites.

Now, unlike gold and silver, nickel can actually prove to be toxic for us, so please, do not go out and lick or consume nickel products. Your body will not thank you.

Thanks for coming to learn about nickel! Tune in tomorrow for some polar trivia. Fossilize you later!

[moth-the-osha-violaton]

so I made this recently

I'm curious as to how the colours were produced

ingredients; clay, red clay, copper, steel, brass, glass

fired to over 1500c

ik transition metals can get funky but this is unexpected

[dreamnight0808]

[high-fructose-jay-syrup]

all the transition metals are trans sorry I don’t make the rules

[paicawppt]

Fact of the day #3

Hassium

This radioactive material was discovered in 1984 by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg and only a few atoms have ever been made. The name is derived from the German state Hesse, where it was made for the first time.

It belongs to the transition metals group and it's atomic number is 108 and in ambient temperature is in solid state. It's boiling point, melting point and density it's unknown.

Hassium does not occur naturally and it will never be isolated in observable quantities. It is created by bombarding lead with iron atoms. Nowadays its only used in research.