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ChromiumOn the 26th of July 1761, a mineralogist named Johann Gottlob Lehmann stumbled upon an orange-red mineral in the Beryozovskoye mines of the Ural Mountains.
NickelIn 1751, a Swedish chemist named Axel Fredrik Cronstedt was trying to extract copper from a dark, heavy ore found in the cobalt mines of Los, Hälsingland…
MolybdenumMolybdenum was mistaken for lead for centuries, a confusion so persistent that its very name derives from the Ancient Greek word for lead.
ZincZinc is a slightly brittle metal at room temperature, yet it possesses a shiny blue-white luster when its surface oxidation is removed.
IronThe Earth's inner core is a sphere of iron and nickel, 1,220 kilometers in radius, generating the planet's magnetic field through the movement of liquid iron…
SiliconSteve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, stood on a stage in San Jose on the 17th of April 2015 and announced a radical new idea that would change the…