Inner Transition Metal Family

Inner Transition Metal Family
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Cerium
Ce
Lanthanide
- Discovered in Sweden

- Prepared through an ion exchange

- Phase: Solid
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Praseodymium
Pr

- Soft, silvery, metallic element

- Made when the element Neodymium, was split in two - Phase: Solid
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Lanthanide

Neodymium
Silvery, metallic element with a yellowish tinge

Obtained through an Ion exchange

- Phase: Solid
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Nd
Lanthanide

Promethium

Radioactive - Phase: Solid
Pm
61
Lanthanide

Samarium
Sm
62
- Silvery white in appearance

- Never found in nature, found in many metals

- Phase: Solid
Lanthanide

Europium
Silvery white in appearance

Found in nature as a free element

- Phase: Solid
Eu
63
Lanthanide

Gadolinium
Gd
64
Silvery white, metallic like

Is found in trace amounts of Gadolinium

- Phase: Solid
Lanthanide

Terbium
Silvery White

Found as an impurity in another chemical compound

- Phase: Solid
65
Tb
Lanthanide

Thorium
Th
90
Silvery white

Discovered in 1828 by a Swedish chemist who named it after Thor

- Phase: Solid
Actinides

Silvery white metallic

- Discovered by a German chemist 1789- Phase: Solid
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U
Uranium
Actinides

Einsteinium
99
Es
Unknown appearance, probably silvery white or metallic grey

Discovered in December 1952 in Berkeley, California

- Phase: Solid
Actinides