| | Transition metal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
 | | However a transition element like (A soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite) vanadium has roughly linear increasing ionisation enthalpies throughout its s and d orbitals, due to the close energy difference between the 3d and 4s orbitals. |
| | Compared to Group II elements such as (A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals) calcium, transition elements form ions with a wide variety of oxidation states. |
| | (loosely defined) transition metals are the forty chemical elements 21 to 30, 39 to 48, 71 to 80, and 103 to 112. |
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