people think there the same but there totally different! and people mistake metal for all screaming.. do you metal fans think that?
The IUPAC definition states that a transition metal is an element whose atom has an incomplete d sub-shell, or which can give rise to cations with an incomplete d sub-shell the neutral Zn atom has no unpaired electrons as its atomic no. is 30. Zn only makes Zn2+ cation which has no unpaired electrons in d sub-shell. therefore Zn is not a transition metal.
Zinc is NOT considered to be a transition metal. This is because it has a relatively low melting/boiling point; in general transition metals have HIGH melting/boiling points, melting at 420 °C, and boiling at 900 °C, and has the lowest melting point of all the transition metals aside from mercury and cadmium.
Transition metals are these metals which have partially stuffed d-orbitals.Zinc has entirely stuffed d-orbital and therefore are not able to be a transition metallic..Its atomic no is 30 and so its configuration is 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s2 3d10.As a result it has a wholly filled d-orbital
