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  • 🇬🇧 Scandium
  • 🇺🇦 Скандій
  • 🇨🇳 鈧
  • 🇳🇱 Scandium
  • 🇫🇷 Scandium
  • 🇩🇪 Scandium
  • 🇮🇱 סקנדיום
  • 🇮🇹 Scandio
  • 🇯🇵 スカンジウム
  • 🇵🇹 Escândio
  • 🇪🇸 Escandio
  • 🇸🇪 Skandium
  • 🇷🇺 Скандий

Scandium - 21Sc: uses

The following uses for scandium are gathered from a number of sources as well as from anecdotal comments. I would be delighted to receive corrections as well as additional referenced uses.

  • isotope tracing in crude oil analysis
  • the iodide added to mercury vapour lamps and produces a highly efficient light source resembling sunlight, which is important for indoor or night-time colour TV transmission.
  • apparently scandium is a component of alloys used to make metallic baseball bats (mercifully metallic cricket bats were banned after Dennis Lillee tried to use one)