Scandium Research Paper

Scandium is a soft, silvery-white metal. With a cost of $270 per gram, it is too expensive for widespread use but alloys of scandium and aluminum are used in many different types of athletic equipment such as baseball bats, bicycle frames, and lacrosse sticks. Scandium is a fairly abundant element. However, it is not found concentrated, it is rather spread out and is therefore difficult to isolate. Scandium is classified as a rare earth element, which doesn’t mean that it is necessarily ‘rare’ but it is difficult to extract from the earth and separate from other