page_title: Group 4 element
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Group 4 element / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ilmenit - Fundort: Miask (Miass), Ural - Ausgestellt im Mineralogischen Museum Bonn English: Ilmenite - Locality: Miask (Miass), Ural - Exposed in the Mineralogical Museum, Bonn, Germany
context_page_description: Group 4 is a group of elements in the periodic table.
  It contains the elements titanium, zirconium, hafnium and rutherfordium. This group lies in the d-block of the periodic table. The group itself has not acquired a trivial name; it belongs to the broader grouping of the transition metals.
  The three group 4 elements that occur naturally are titanium, zirconium and hafnium. The first three members of the group share similar properties; all three are hard refractory metals under standard conditions. However, the fourth element rutherfordium, has been synthesized in the laboratory; none of its isotopes have been found occurring in nature. All isotopes of rutherfordium are radioactive. So far, no experiments in a supercollider have been conducted to synthesize the next member of the group, either unpenthexium or unpentoctium, and it is unlikely that they will be synthesized in the near future.
caption: Crystal of the abundant mineral Ilmenite
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