A Whos Who of Metal Ions

The Periodic Table of elements is dominated by metals. Moreover, it is a growing majority, as new elements made through the efforts of nuclear scientists are invariably metallic. If 

Because we meet them daily in various forms, we tend to think of metals as common. However, common is a relative term - iron may be more common than gold in terms of availability in the Earth s crust, but gold is itself more common than rhenium. Even for the fairly well-known elements of the first row of the d block of the Periodic Table, abundance in 

21 SC scandium 22 Ti titanium 23 V vanadium 24 Cr chromium 25 Mn manganese 26 Fe iron 27 CO cobalt 28 Ni nickel 29 Cu copper 30 Zn zinc 

39 Y ytterbium 40 Zr zirconium 41 Nb niobium 42 MO molybdenum 43 TC technetium 44 Ru ruthenium 45 Rh rhodium 46 Pd palladium 47 Ag silver 48 Cd cadmium 

57 La lanthanum 72 Hf hafnium 73 Ta tantalum 74 W tungsten 75 Re rhenium 76 OS osmium 77 lr iridium 78 Pt platinum 79 Au gold so Hg mercury 

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