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Transition metals
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.
ZirconiumIn 1789, a German chemist named Martin Klaproth examined a gemstone from the island of Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka, and discovered a new element hidden…
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…
SilverSilver is the most electrically conductive metal known to science, yet for most of human history, it was valued not for its ability to carry a current, but…
GoldGold is the only metal that exists in nature as a solid, pure element, yet it is so rare that if you gathered every ounce ever mined in human history, it…