You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. For the human brain, iron is essential yet deadly. It exists on Earth ...

Pica is a symptom of iron deficiency that is a little more strange; it is an irresistible desire to consume non-nutritive ...

These elements tend to come from two specific areas of the periodic table: the d-block metals like cobalt, nickel, and iron, and the f-block actinides lanthanides, which include the rare-earth ...

Some substances, like particles of this iron, contain only one kind of atom. Iron is an element. It is made of only one type of atom: iron atoms. Sulfur is another element. It contains only sulfur ...

Iron is the main ingredient in various forms of iron and steel, but the various types of metals contain other elements as well. Sometimes these elements are unwanted; other times they're ...

Can an iron structure stand tall for 1,600 years without rusting, despite being exposed to the elements? It seems implausible, considering the supposed lack of technology at the time of its ...

It would be impossible to include a detailed survey of the effects of alloying elements on the iron-carbon equilibrium diagram in this book. In the simplest version this would require analysis of a ...