Tabel periodik: Perbedaan antara revisi

Meskipun skandium dan itrium adalah dua unsur pertama pada golongan 3 identitas dua unsur berikutnya belum dituntaskan. Mereka adalah lantanum dan aktinium; atau lutetium dan lawrencium. Ada argumen kimia dan fisika yang kuat yang mendukung penyusunan terakhir<ref>{{cite|last1=Thyssen|first1=P.|last2=Binnemanns|first2=K|year=2011|chapter=1: Accommodation of the rare earths in the periodic table: A historical analysis|editor-last1=Gschneidner Jr.|editor-first1=K.A|editor-last2=Büzli|editor-first2=J-C.J.|editor-last3=Pecharsky|editor-first3=V.K.|title=Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths|volume=41|location=Amsterdam|publisher=Elsevier|pages=80–81|isbn=978-0-444-53590-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite|last1=Keeler|first1=J.|last2=Wothers|first2=P.|year=2014|title=Chemical Structure and Reactivity: An Integrated Approach|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University|page=259|isbn=978-0-19-9604135}}</ref> tetapi tidak semua penulis telah diyakinkan.<ref>{{cite|last = Scerri|first = E.|year = 2012|title = Mendeleev's Periodic Table Is Finally Completed and What To Do about Group 3?|journal = Chemistry International|volume = 34|issue = 4|url = http://www.iupac.org/publications/ci/2012/3404/ud.html}}</ref> Kebanyakan kimiawan tidak menyadari bahwa ada kontroversi.<ref>{{cite|last = Castelvecchi|first = Davide|date = 8 April 2015|title = Exotic atom struggles to find its place in the periodic table|journal = Nature News|url = http://www.nature.com/news/exotic-atom-struggles-to-find-its-place-in-the-periodic-table-1.17275}}</ref>

Lantanum dan aktinium secara tradisional digambarkan sebagai anggota golongan 3.<ref>{{cite|last=Emsley|first=J.|year=2011|title=Nature's Building Blocks|edition=new|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University|page=651|isbn=978-0-19-960563-7}}</ref><ref>See, for example: ["[http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table "Periodic Table]"]]. Royal Society of Chemistry.</ref>