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Which of these metals isn’t a transition metal?

a)aluminum
b)silver
c)iron
d)zirconium

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A. Aluminum is not a transition metal, whereas silver, iron, and zirconium are. They are called transition because they have more than eight electrons in their shells and can distribute them in different ways.
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