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Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, is located 70 kilometres south of Turkey and 96 kilometres off the coast of S...

California was once the Mecca of gold mining, but today the region that produces the most gold in the world is in South Africa, near the...

Aluminum is found around all of us, in almost every rock, plant, and animal on the planet. It is the third most abundant element on the...

Uraninite Uranium is not an artificial substance, but a natural element, just like oxygen, iron, or gold. It is found in the Earth's...

   Mercury is a heavy, silver-colored element . It is the only common metal which is LIQUID at room temperatures. The Latin name for it ...

   The alloy called bronze is a mixture of copper and tin. Bronze has been used for at least 5,000 years—much longer than iron.    People ...

   Lutetium, element number 71, is the last metal in the lanthanide series of rate-earth elements. It is like lanthanum and the other lantha...

   Polonium is a chemical element. It is radioactive, like uranium and radium. Its symbol is Po and its atomic number is 84. The mass number...

   Many people know what chromium looks like, for the bright metal trimming on automobiles is plated with chromium. The plating is very t...

   A fusible metal is any alloy which melts at a temperature below that of boiling water, and below the arithmetic mean of the temperatures ...

   Most magnetic bodies must be made magnetic by using some outside influence such as electricity. There are, however, certain metals which ...

   Palladium is a metallic element. It has a bright silvery luster. This rare, grayish element is less dense, a little harder, and more easi...

   Forging is the shaping of metal, usually iron or steel, by heat and pressure. However, aluminum and other metals are also forged. In forg...

   Zinc is a hard, silvery metal belonging to the nonferrous metal group. In nature zinc rarely occurs as a free element. It is widely distr...

   Iridium is a metallic element much like platinum. It was identified in 1802. With the exception of osmium, also a newly discovered metal,...

   Niobium is a shiny, grayish metallic element. It was discovered in 1801 by Heinrich Rose. Its original name was columbium. This name is s...

   Nickel is a very hard, magnetic, metallic element. It is almost silver-white. Nickel, capable of a high polish, does not rust easily. Its...

   Manganese is a useful hard gray metal. Not a very common element, manganese makes up less than 0.1% of the earth's crust. When it is ...

bronze sword    Sometime between 3500 and 3000 B.C. , people discovered that mixing copper and tin would yield a new metallic substance,...

   Lithium is the lightest metallic element known. It was discovered in 1817 by a Swedish chemist, J. A. Arfvedson. It is a silver-white met...