Yttrium is element 39, a transition metal of the d block, in group 3, period 5. Its ground-state configuration is [Kr] 4d1 5s2, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 2, 3.
It was discovered in 1794, by Gadolin.
Name origin: Ytterby, Sweden.
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