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Scandium is the smallest d-block element which in the past also made it the smallest transition metal.

However, using the accepted modern definition of a transition metal:

'a transition metal is one which forms one or more stable ions which have incompletely filled d orbitals'

scandium would not count as a transition metal, as it always forms 3+ ions with no d-electrons.

Using this definition, the smallest transition metal would therefore be titanium.

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