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Chemical Elements · Question

What element has the symbol 'Sc'?

Answer

Scandium

The story behind the answer

Sc is the symbol for Scandium, element 21, a silvery transition metal. The other options don’t match: Selenium is Se, Sodium is Na (from Latin natrium), and “Scarnium” isn’t a real element.

Discovered in 1879 by Lars Fredrik Nilson, scandium was named

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