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Scandium

Transition

Who are you?
And what do you fare?
Shouldn't you be way over there?

I thought you would be?
The next in group 3
Underneath Boron and Alumini.

You're a metal I see,
But then how can it be
That you still take electrons from period 3

Yet strange to say
You've gone your own way
I don't understand the game that you play

Only rarely found,
Buried deep in the ground,
You have set a new trend most profound

The first on your track,
Of the transition stack,
That split alkali metals from the rest of the pack,

Now the fashion's caught on,
Copper, Gold and Iron,
Are just some of the big names that made the group strong.

But I never forgot,
You were first of the lot,
Now you stand on your own, for, believe it or not …

Scientists did decide
From the pack you divide
To make plenty of room for the new Lanthanides.

By Rhys Kelly

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