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transition series n. (a) Geology a series of greywackes and other rocks, now mainly classified as Ordovician and Silurian, which were believed to contain the earliest traces of living organisms (obsolete); cf. Compounds 1b; (b) Chemistry the set of transition elements; each of the sets of transition elements occupying particular rows of the periodic table.
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?1811 T. Allan Sketch Mr. Davy's Lect. Geol. iii. 21 The last [sc. family of secondary rocks], which belong to what Werner terms the transition series.
1863 W. Hughes Geogr. Brit. Hist. xiv. 430 Veins of tin, copper, lead, and manganese, occur extensively within the transition series of Devon.
1875 H. Watts Dict. Chem. 2nd Suppl. 464 Between Cr and Mn on the one hand, and Cu and Zn on the other, there come the elements Fe, Co, Ni, forming the following transition series.
1940 Sci. Monthly Dec. 525/2 Certain metals of the transition series of elements—for example, iron, cobalt and nickel of the first transition series..possess a relatively rare physical property known as ferromagnetism.
2013 E. Scerri Tale Seven Elements vi. 98 As one crosses the third transition series of elements, the size of atoms are smaller than expected because the additional electrons, added to the atom as the series is traversed, fall into an inner f orbital.
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