It has long been presumed that there is a common cause at the genetic, cognitive, and neural levels for autism's characteristic triad of symptoms. However, there is increasing suspicion that autism is instead a complex disorder whose core aspects have distinct causes that often co-occur.
1 Transition metals are kinds of metals that have electrons in d or f orbitals. 2  Transition metals are in columns 3-12 of the periodic table and in the lanthanide and actinide series.  Most transition metals are lustrous, silvery, hard, and good conductors; however, properties may vary greatly.
The transition metals are aptly named: they provide a bridge, or transition, between the main group metals and the nonmetals. They are all metals, and they are found in the d-block, meaning that their electron configurations are going to have unfilled d orbitals.