Product Properties:

White powder, soluble in hot acid, and insoluble in water. 

Applications:

Used in the electronics industry, laser and superconducting materials, alloy additives, various cathode coating additives, metallurgy, electric light sources, catalysts, activators, and in the fields of optical glass and ceramics. It can serve as a vapor deposition material for semiconductor coatings, in the production of solid-state lasers with variable wavelengths, television electron guns, and metal halide lamps. Additionally, it is used as a source of metallic scandium and scandium materials, in thermionic exchangers, emission materials, and lasers. It also has applications as a research reagent in biochemical studies.