Scandium metal is silver gray rare earth. It oxidize in air and show light yellow or pink. The package should avoid fire, air, water and oxidizing agent. There are two different production methods for it, distillation method and reduction method. The distilled scandium get better quality than the reduced one. The refined scandium metal is dendritic like crystal of metallic lustre. However the reduced one is broken irregular pieces. Reduction scandium metal is produced by heating scandium fluoride (ScF3) with calcium metal.

Specification

4N: Sc/RE≥99.99%, Sc≥99.9%

Packaging

5kg/drum, inner packaging 0.5kg/bottle, plastic bag vacuum-packed in bottle, filled with Argon

Production

Metallic scandium can be prepared by reducing the fluoride with calcium metal. It can also be prepared by electrolysing molten potassium, lithium and scandium chlorides, using electrodes of tungsten wire and molten zinc.

To produce reduction scandium metal, the oxide is converted to scandium fluoride and then reduced with metallic calcium.

Hunan Oriental Scandium has its own advantage of scandium resources. The scandium raw material comes from the waste acid of titanium dioxide in our group, LB group, which is the 3rd largest titanium dioxide manufacturer in the world.

Hunan Oriental Scandium has been focused on the scandium industry for more than a decade and can meet customers' demand for high purity, producing distilled scandium metal with 4N/4N5/5N or even higher purity.

Application

Reduction scandium metal is the raw material to produce distilled scandium metal. Scandium metal is known as "bright element". In addition to being used in new electric light source, laser material and alloy addition, scandium metal is also widely used in new application fields such as shape memory material and piezoelectric material. High purity scandium metal is one of the most effective key materials for producing 5G chips.

Hunan Oriental Scandium manages in accordance with the ISO9001 quality management system to ensure the traceability management of the whole process of scandium metal from raw material to production process control to warehouse delivery. Our company produces scandium metal with high purity, low oxygen content and good quality stability, and the products are exported to the world.

FAQs:

Is scandium a rare earth metal?

Scandium and yttrium are considered rare earth elements because they tend to occur in the same deposits as the lanthanides and exhibit similar chemical properties.

What is a scandium used for?

Scandium is mainly used for research purposes. It has, however, great potential because it has almost as low a density as aluminium and a much higher melting point. An aluminium-scandium alloy has been used in Russian MIG fighter planes, high-end bicycle frames and baseball bats.

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