Iron, the Glossary
Iron is a chemical element.[1]
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570 relations: Abraham Darby I, Abundance of elements in Earth's crust, Abundance of the chemical elements, Acid phosphatase, Acidianus, Acidithiobacillus, Actinometer, Adenosine triphosphate, Ages of Man, Agriculture, Alloy, Alloy steel, Alpha decay, Alpha particle, Alpha process, Aluminium, Aluminium-26, Alzheimer's disease, Ammonia, Ammonium iron(II) sulfate, Anatolia, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Anemia, Angewandte Chemie, Aniline, Annealing (materials science), Antoine Lavoisier, Aryl group, Asmar, Afghanistan, Aspergillus niger, Asteroid, Atharvaveda, Atomic mass, Atomic number, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder predominantly inattentive, Austenite, Australia, Axial chirality, Bainite, Banded iron formation, Basic oxygen steelmaking, Bath stone, Béchamp reduction, Bean, Berlin iron jewellery, Bessemer process, Beta, Bicarbonate, ... Expand index (520 more) »
- Chemical elements with body-centered cubic structure
- Dietary minerals
- Ferromagnetic materials
- Minerals in space group 225
- Minerals in space group 229
- Pyrotechnic fuels
Abraham Darby I
Abraham Darby, in his later life called Abraham Darby the Elder, now sometimes known for convenience as Abraham Darby I (14 April 1677 – 5 May 1717, the first and best known of several men of that name), was a British ironmaster and foundryman.
Abundance of elements in Earth's crust
The abundance of elements in Earth's crust is shown in tabulated form with the estimated crustal abundance for each chemical element shown as mg/kg, or parts per million (ppm) by mass (10,000 ppm.
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Abundance of the chemical elements
The abundance of the chemical elements is a measure of the occurrence of the chemical elements relative to all other elements in a given environment.
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Acid phosphatase
Acid phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.2, systematic name phosphate-monoester phosphohydrolase (acid optimum)) is an enzyme that frees attached phosphoryl groups from other molecules during digestion.
Acidianus
In taxonomy, Acidianus is a genus of the Sulfolobaceae.
Acidithiobacillus
Acidithiobacillus is a genus of the Acidithiobacillia in the phylum "Pseudomonadota".
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Actinometer
An actinometer is an instrument that can measure the heating power of radiation.
Adenosine triphosphate
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a nucleotide that provides energy to drive and support many processes in living cells, such as muscle contraction, nerve impulse propagation, and chemical synthesis.
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Ages of Man
The Ages of Man are the historical stages of human existence according to Greek mythology and its subsequent Roman interpretation.
Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
Alloy
An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which in most cases at least one is a metallic element, although it is also sometimes used for mixtures of elements; herein only metallic alloys are described.
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Alloy steel
Alloy steel is steel that is alloyed with a variety of elements in total amounts between 1.0% and 50% by weight to improve its mechanical properties.
Alpha decay
Alpha decay or α-decay is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits an alpha particle (helium nucleus) and thereby transforms or "decays" into a different atomic nucleus, with a mass number that is reduced by four and an atomic number that is reduced by two.
Alpha particle
Alpha particles, also called alpha rays or alpha radiation, consist of two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to a helium-4 nucleus.
Alpha process
The alpha process, also known as alpha capture or the alpha ladder, is one of two classes of nuclear fusion reactions by which stars convert helium into heavier elements.
Aluminium
Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13. Iron and Aluminium are chemical elements, native element minerals and pyrotechnic fuels.
Aluminium-26
Aluminium-26 (26Al, Al-26) is a radioactive isotope of the chemical element aluminium, decaying by either positron emission or electron capture to stable magnesium-26.
Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens, and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia.
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Ammonia
Ammonia is an inorganic chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula.
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Ammonium iron(II) sulfate
Ammonium iron(II) sulfate, or Mohr's salt, is the inorganic compound with the formula (NH4)2SO4.Fe(SO4).6H2O.
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Anatolia
Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
Anemia
Anemia or anaemia (British English) is a blood disorder in which the blood has a reduced ability to carry oxygen.
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Angewandte Chemie
Angewandte Chemie (meaning "Applied Chemistry") is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by Wiley-VCH on behalf of the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker).
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Aniline
Aniline (and -ine indicating a derived substance) is an organic compound with the formula.
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Annealing (materials science)
In metallurgy and materials science, annealing is a heat treatment that alters the physical and sometimes chemical properties of a material to increase its ductility and reduce its hardness, making it more workable.
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Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26 August 17438 May 1794), CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
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Aryl group
In organic chemistry, an aryl is any functional group or substituent derived from an aromatic ring, usually an aromatic hydrocarbon, such as phenyl and naphthyl.
Asmar, Afghanistan
Asmar (اسمار) is a river valley and a town in the northeastern Kunar province of Afghanistan, which serves as the district center of Bar Kunar district.
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Aspergillus niger
Aspergillus niger is a mold classified within the Nigri section of the Aspergillus genus.
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Asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor an identified comet— that orbits within the inner Solar System.
Atharvaveda
The Atharvaveda or Atharva Veda (अथर्ववेद,, from अथर्वन्, and वेद, "knowledge") or Atharvana Veda (अथर्वणवेद) is the "knowledge storehouse of atharvāṇas, the procedures for everyday life".
Atomic mass
The atomic mass (ma or m) is the mass of an atom.
Atomic number
The atomic number or nuclear charge number (symbol Z) of a chemical element is the charge number of an atomic nucleus.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by executive dysfunction occasioning symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity and emotional dysregulation that are excessive and pervasive, impairing in multiple contexts, and otherwise age-inappropriate.
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder predominantly inattentive
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder predominantly inattentive (ADHD-PI or ADHD-I), is one of the three presentations of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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Austenite
Austenite, also known as gamma-phase iron (γ-Fe), is a metallic, non-magnetic allotrope of iron or a solid solution of iron with an alloying element.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Axial chirality
In chemistry, axial chirality is a special case of chirality in which a molecule contains two pairs of chemical groups in a non-planar arrangement about an axis of chirality so that the molecule is not superposable on its mirror image.
Bainite
Bainite is a plate-like microstructure that forms in steels at temperatures of 125–550 °C (depending on alloy content).
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Banded iron formation
Banded iron formations (BIFs; also called banded ironstone formations) are distinctive units of sedimentary rock consisting of alternating layers of iron oxides and iron-poor chert.
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Basic oxygen steelmaking
Basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS, BOP, BOF, or OSM), also known as Linz-Donawitz steelmaking or the oxygen converter process,Brock and Elzinga, p. 50.
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Bath stone
Bath Stone is an oolitic limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate originally obtained from the Middle Jurassic aged Great Oolite Group of the Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines under Combe Down, Somerset, England.
Béchamp reduction
The Béchamp reduction (or Béchamp process) is a chemical reaction that converts aromatic nitro compounds to their corresponding anilines using iron as the reductant:.
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Bean
A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food.
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Berlin iron jewellery
Berlin iron jewellery refers to articles of cast-iron jewellery that were made during the early 19th century in Germany.
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Bessemer process
The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.
Beta
Beta (uppercase, lowercase, or cursive; bē̂ta or víta) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet.
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Bicarbonate
In inorganic chemistry, bicarbonate (IUPAC-recommended nomenclature: hydrogencarbonate) is an intermediate form in the deprotonation of carbonic acid.
Bioinorganic chemistry
Bioinorganic chemistry is a field that examines the role of metals in biology.
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Blast furnace
A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper.
Blood
Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.
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Blood donation
A blood donation occurs when a person voluntarily has blood drawn and used for transfusions and/or made into biopharmaceutical medications by a process called fractionation (separation of whole blood components).
Bloomery
A bloomery is a type of metallurgical furnace once used widely for smelting iron from its oxides.
Blueprint
A blueprint is a reproduction of a technical drawing or engineering drawing using a contact print process on light-sensitive sheets introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842.
Bluing (steel)
Bluing, sometimes spelled as blueing, is a passivation process in which steel is partially protected against rust using a black oxide coating.
Bohr effect
The Bohr effect is a phenomenon first described in 1904 by the Danish physiologist Christian Bohr.
Bread
Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour (usually wheat) and water, usually by baking.
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Breakfast cereal
Breakfast cereal is a breakfast food made from processed cereal grains.
Brinell scale
The Brinell scale characterizes the indentation hardness of materials through the scale of penetration of an indenter, loaded on a material test-piece.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Brown Jurassic
The Brown Jurassic or Brown Jura (Brauner Jura or Braunjura) in earth history refers to the middle of the three lithostratigraphic units of the South German Jurassic, the latter being understood not as a geographical, but a geological term in the sense of a lithostratigraphic super group.
Bunter (geology)
Bunter Pebble Beds is the name formerly given to a set of sandstone deposits within the New Red Sandstone containing rounded pebbles.
Buntsandstein
The Buntsandstein (German for coloured or colourful sandstone) or Bunter sandstone is a lithostratigraphic and allostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) in the subsurface of large parts of west and central Europe.
Calcium oxide
Calcium oxide (formula: CaO), commonly known as quicklime or burnt lime, is a widely used chemical compound.
Calcium silicate
Calcium silicate can refer to several silicates of calcium including.
Cape York meteorite
The Cape York meteorite, also known as the Innaanganeq meteorite, is one of the largest known iron meteorites, classified as a medium octahedrite in chemical group IIIAB.
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Car
A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.
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Carajás mine
The Carajás Mine is the largest iron ore mine in the world.
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
Carbon monoxide
Carbon monoxide (chemical formula CO) is a poisonous, flammable gas that is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and slightly less dense than air.
Carbon steel
Carbon steel is a steel with carbon content from about 0.05 up to 2.1 percent by weight.
Carbonate
A carbonate is a salt of carbonic acid,, characterized by the presence of the carbonate ion, a polyatomic ion with the formula.
Carbonyl iron
Carbonyl iron is a highly pure form of iron (97.5% for grade S, 99.5+% for grade R), prepared by the chemical decomposition of purified iron pentacarbonyl.
Carboxyhemoglobin
Carboxyhemoglobin (carboxyhaemoglobin BrE) (symbol COHb or HbCO) is a stable complex of carbon monoxide and hemoglobin (Hb) that forms in red blood cells upon contact with carbon monoxide.
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Carburizing
Carburizing, or carburising, is a heat treatment process in which iron or steel absorbs carbon while the metal is heated in the presence of a carbon-bearing material, such as charcoal or carbon monoxide.
Case-hardening
Case-hardening or carburization is the process of introducing carbon to the surface of a low carbon iron or much more commonly low carbon steel object in order to enable the surface to be hardened.
Cast iron
Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content of more than 2% and silicon content around 1–3%. Iron and Cast iron are Building materials.
Catalase
Catalase is a common enzyme found in nearly all living organisms exposed to oxygen (such as bacteria, plants, and animals) which catalyzes the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen.
Catalysis
Catalysis is the increase in rate of a chemical reaction due to an added substance known as a catalyst.
Cathodic protection
Cathodic protection (CP) is a technique used to control the corrosion of a metal surface by making it the cathode of an electrochemical cell.
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Caucasus
The Caucasus or Caucasia, is a transcontinental region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia.
Cell (biology)
The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all forms of life.
Cell growth
Cell growth refers to an increase in the total mass of a cell, including both cytoplasmic, nuclear and organelle volume.
Cellular respiration
Cellular respiration is the process by which biological fuels are oxidized in the presence of an inorganic electron acceptor, such as oxygen, to drive the bulk production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which contains energy.
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Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.
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Cementation process
The cementation process is an obsolete technology for making steel by carburization of iron.
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Cementite
Cementite (or iron carbide) is a compound of iron and carbon, more precisely an intermediate transition metal carbide with the formula Fe3C.
Charcoal
Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents. Iron and Charcoal are pyrotechnic fuels.
Charge-transfer complex
In chemistry, charge-transfer (CT) complex, or electron donor-acceptor complex, describes a type of supramolecular assembly of two or more molecules or ions.
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Chelation
Chelation is a type of bonding of ions and the molecules to metal ions.
Chemical element
A chemical element is a chemical substance that cannot be broken down into other substances by chemical reactions. Iron and chemical element are chemical elements.
Chemical milling
Chemical milling or industrial etching is the subtractive manufacturing process of using baths of temperature-regulated etching chemicals to remove material to create an object with the desired shape.
Chemical symbol
Chemical symbols are the abbreviations used in chemistry, mainly for chemical elements; but also for functional groups, chemical compounds, and other entities. Iron and chemical symbol are chemical elements.
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy (often abbreviated chemo, sometimes CTX and CTx) is the type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (chemotherapeutic agents or alkylating agents) in a standard regimen.
Chert
Chert is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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Chlorobis(dppe)iron hydride
Chlorobis(dppe)iron hydride is a coordination complex with the formula HFeCl(dppe)2, where dppe is the bidentate ligand 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane.
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Christian Bohr
Christian Harald Lauritz Peter Emil Bohr (1855–1911) was a Danish physician, father of the physicist and Nobel laureate Niels Bohr, as well as the mathematician and football player Harald Bohr and grandfather of another physicist and Nobel laureate Aage Bohr.
Chromium
Chromium is a chemical element; it has symbol Cr and atomic number 24. Iron and Chromium are chemical elements, chemical elements with body-centered cubic structure, dietary minerals and native element minerals.
Chromosome 6
Chromosome 6 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans.
Circulatory system
The circulatory system is a system of organs that includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood which is circulated throughout the entire body of a human or other vertebrate.
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Cis–trans isomerism
Cis–trans isomerism, also known as geometric isomerism, describes certain arrangements of atoms within molecules.
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CJK characters
In internationalization, CJK characters is a collective term for graphemes used in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, which each include Chinese characters.
Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).
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Close-packing of equal spheres
In geometry, close-packing of equal spheres is a dense arrangement of congruent spheres in an infinite, regular arrangement (or lattice).
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Coagulopathy
Coagulopathy (also called a bleeding disorder) is a condition in which the blood's ability to coagulate (form clots) is impaired.
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.
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Cobalt
Cobalt is a chemical element; it has symbol Co and atomic number 27. Iron and Cobalt are chemical elements, dietary minerals, Ferromagnetic materials, native element minerals and transition metals.
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Cofactor (biochemistry)
A cofactor is a non-protein chemical compound or metallic ion that is required for an enzyme's role as a catalyst (a catalyst is a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction).
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Coke (fuel)
Coke is a grey, hard, and porous coal-based fuel with a high carbon content.
Cold working
In metallurgy, cold forming or cold working is any metalworking process in which metal is shaped below its recrystallization temperature, usually at the ambient temperature.
Colorectal cancer
Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine).
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Coma
A coma is a deep state of prolonged unconsciousness in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, or sound, lacks a normal wake-sleep cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions.
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Compass
A compass is a device that shows the cardinal directions used for navigation and geographic orientation.
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Computer memory
Computer memory stores information, such as data and programs, for immediate use in the computer.
Congener (chemistry)
In chemistry, congeners are chemical substances "related to each other by origin, structure, or function".
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Conservation of mass
In physics and chemistry, the law of conservation of mass or principle of mass conservation states that for any system closed to all transfers of matter and energy, the mass of the system must remain constant over time, as the system's mass cannot change, so the quantity can neither be added nor be removed.
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Coordination complex
A coordination complex is a chemical compound consisting of a central atom or ion, which is usually metallic and is called the coordination centre, and a surrounding array of bound molecules or ions, that are in turn known as ligands or complexing agents. Iron and coordination complex are transition metals.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29. Iron and Copper are chemical elements, cubic minerals, dietary minerals, native element minerals and transition metals.
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Crust (geology)
In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite.
Crystal structure
In crystallography, crystal structure is a description of ordered arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules in a crystalline material.
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Crystallographic defect
A crystallographic defect is an interruption of the regular patterns of arrangement of atoms or molecules in crystalline solids.
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Cubic crystal system
In crystallography, the cubic (or isometric) crystal system is a crystal system where the unit cell is in the shape of a cube.
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Curie temperature
In physics and materials science, the Curie temperature (TC), or Curie point, is the temperature above which certain materials lose their permanent magnetic properties, which can (in most cases) be replaced by induced magnetism.
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Cuticle
A cuticle, or cuticula, is any of a variety of tough but flexible, non-mineral outer coverings of an organism, or parts of an organism, that provide protection.
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Cyanide
In chemistry, cyanide is a chemical compound that contains a functional group.
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Cyanometallates or cyanometalates are a class of coordination compounds, most often consisting only of cyanide ligands. Iron and cyanometalate are transition metals.
Cyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl dimer
Cyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl dimer is an organometallic compound with the formula 2, often abbreviated to Cp2Fe2(CO)4, 2 or even Fp2, with the colloquial name "fip dimer".
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Cysteine
Cysteine (symbol Cys or C) is a semiessential proteinogenic amino acid with the formula.
Cytochrome
Cytochromes are redox-active proteins containing a heme, with a central iron (Fe) atom at its core, as a cofactor.
Cytochrome P450
Cytochromes P450 (P450s or CYPs) are a superfamily of enzymes containing heme as a cofactor that mostly, but not exclusively, function as monooxygenases.
Damascus steel
Damascus steel (Arabic: فولاذ دمشقي) is the forged steel of the blades of swords smithed in the Near East from ingots of carbon steel imported from Southern India or made in production centers in Sri Lanka or Khorasan, Iran.
Decay product
In nuclear physics, a decay product (also known as a daughter product, daughter isotope, radio-daughter, or daughter nuclide) is the remaining nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
Deferoxamine
Deferoxamine (DFOA), also known as desferrioxamine and sold under the brand name Desferal, is a medication that binds iron and aluminium.
Delta (letter)
Delta (uppercase Δ, lowercase δ; δέλτα, délta) is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.
Deoxyribose
Deoxyribose, or more precisely 2-deoxyribose, is a monosaccharide with idealized formula H−(C.
Dietary Reference Intake
The Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) is a system of nutrition recommendations from the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) of the National Academies (United States).
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Dietary supplement
A dietary supplement is a manufactured product intended to supplement a person's diet by taking a pill, capsule, tablet, powder, or liquid.
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Direct reduced iron
Direct reduced iron (DRI), also called sponge iron, is produced from the direct reduction of iron ore (in the form of lumps, pellets, or fines) into iron by a reducing gas which contains elemental carbon (produced from natural gas or coal) and/or hydrogen.
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Disko Island
Disko Island (Qeqertarsuaq, Diskoøen) is a large island in Baffin Bay, off the west coast of Greenland.
Disodium tetracarbonylferrate
Disodium tetracarbonylferrate is the organoiron compound with the formula Na2.
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DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.
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DNA replication
In molecular biology, DNA replication is the biological process of producing two identical replicas of DNA from one original DNA molecule.
Dolomites
The Dolomites (Dolomiti), also known as the Dolomite Mountains, Dolomite Alps or Dolomitic Alps, are a mountain range in northeastern Italy.
Domestic canary
The domestic canary, often simply known as the canary (Serinus canaria forma domestica), is a domesticated form of the wild canary, a small songbird in the finch family originating from the Macaronesian Islands of the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands.
Donzdorf
Donzdorf is a town in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.
Double beta decay
In nuclear physics, double beta decay is a type of radioactive decay in which two neutrons are simultaneously transformed into two protons, or vice versa, inside an atomic nucleus.
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Ductile iron
Ductile iron, also known as ductile cast iron, nodular cast iron, spheroidal graphite iron, spheroidal graphite cast iron and SG iron, is a type of graphite-rich cast iron discovered in 1943 by Keith Millis.
Ductility
Ductility refers to the ability of a material to sustain significant plastic deformation before fracture.
Duodenum
The duodenum is the first section of the small intestine in most higher vertebrates, including mammals, reptiles, and birds.
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
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Earth science
Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to the planet Earth.
Earth's crust
Earth's crust is its thick outer shell of rock, referring to less than one percent of the planet's radius and volume.
Earth's inner core
Earth's inner core is the innermost geologic layer of the planet Earth.
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Earth's magnetic field
Earth's magnetic field, also known as the geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from Earth's interior out into space, where it interacts with the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun.
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Earth's outer core
Earth's outer core is a fluid layer about thick, composed of mostly iron and nickel that lies above Earth's solid inner core and below its mantle.
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El Mutún
El Cerro Mutún (Spanish for "the Mountain Mutún") is an iron ore deposit.
Elastic modulus
An elastic modulus (also known as modulus of elasticity) is the unit of measurement of an object's or substance's resistance to being deformed elastically (i.e., non-permanently) when a stress is applied to it.
Electric arc furnace
An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a furnace that heats material by means of an electric arc.
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Electric motor
An electric motor is an electrical machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy.
Electrolysis
In chemistry and manufacturing, electrolysis is a technique that uses direct electric current (DC) to drive an otherwise non-spontaneous chemical reaction.
Electrolytic iron
Electrolytic iron is a form of high purity iron, obtained by electrolysis.
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Electrolytic process
An electrolytic process is the use of electrolysis industrially to refine metals or compounds at a high purity and low cost.
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Electron
The electron (or in nuclear reactions) is a subatomic particle with a negative one elementary electric charge.
Electron configuration
In atomic physics and quantum chemistry, the electron configuration is the distribution of electrons of an atom or molecule (or other physical structure) in atomic or molecular orbitals.
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Electron transfer
Electron transfer (ET) occurs when an electron relocates from an atom or molecule to another such chemical entity.
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Enol
In organic chemistry, alkenols (shortened to enols) are a type of reactive structure or intermediate in organic chemistry that is represented as an alkene (olefin) with a hydroxyl group attached to one end of the alkene double bond.
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Enthalpy of atomization
In chemistry, the enthalpy of atomization (also atomisation in British English) is the enthalpy change that accompanies the total separation of all atoms in a chemical substance either an element or a compound.
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Enzyme
Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts by accelerating chemical reactions.
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Epsilon
Epsilon (uppercase Ε, lowercase ε or ϵ; έψιλον) is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a mid<!-- not close-mid, see (1999) - Illustrations of the IPA: Modern Greek. --> front unrounded vowel or.
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Equilibrium constant
The equilibrium constant of a chemical reaction is the value of its reaction quotient at chemical equilibrium, a state approached by a dynamic chemical system after sufficient time has elapsed at which its composition has no measurable tendency towards further change.
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Ernst Otto Fischer
Ernst Otto Fischer (10 November 1918 – 23 July 2007) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in the area of organometallic chemistry.
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Ester
In chemistry, an ester is a functional group derived from an acid (organic or inorganic) in which the hydrogen atom (H) of at least one acidic hydroxyl group of that acid is replaced by an organyl group.
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Eurasia
Eurasia is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.
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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is the agency of the European Union (EU) that provides independent scientific advice and communicates on existing and emerging risks associated with the food chain.
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Extinct radionuclide
An extinct radionuclide is a radionuclide that was formed by nucleosynthesis before the formation of the Solar System, about 4.6 billion years ago, but has since decayed to virtually zero abundance and is no longer detectable as a primordial nuclide.
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Fatigue limit
The fatigue limit or endurance limit is the stress level below which an infinite number of loading cycles can be applied to a material without causing fatigue failure.
Ferrate
Ferrate loosely refers to a material that can be viewed as containing anionic iron complexes.
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Ferredoxin
Ferredoxins (from Latin ferrum: iron + redox, often abbreviated "fd") are iron–sulfur proteins that mediate electron transfer in a range of metabolic reactions.
Ferric
In chemistry, iron(III) or ferric refers to the element iron in its +3 oxidation state.
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Ferric chloride test
The ferric chloride test is used to determine the presence of phenols in a given sample or compound (for instance natural phenols in a plant extract).
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Ferrimagnetism
A ferrimagnetic material is a material that has populations of atoms with opposing magnetic moments, as in antiferromagnetism, but these moments are unequal in magnitude, so a spontaneous magnetization remains.
Ferrite (magnet)
A ferrite is one of a family of iron oxide-containing magnetic ceramic materials. Iron and ferrite (magnet) are Ferromagnetic materials.
Ferritin
Ferritin is a universal intracellular protein that stores iron and releases it in a controlled fashion.
Ferrocene
Ferrocene is an organometallic compound with the formula.
Ferrocenium tetrafluoroborate
Ferrocenium tetrafluoroborate is an organometallic compound with the formula BF4.
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Ferromagnetism
Ferromagnetism is a property of certain materials (such as iron) that results in a significant, observable magnetic permeability, and in many cases, a significant magnetic coercivity, allowing the material to form a permanent magnet.
Ferropericlase
Ferropericlase or magnesiowüstite is a magnesium/iron oxide with the chemical formula that is interpreted to be one of the main constituents of the Earth's lower mantle together with the silicate perovskite, a magnesium/iron silicate with a perovskite structure.
Ferrous
In chemistry, iron(II) refers to the element iron in its +2 oxidation state.
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Finery forge
A finery forge is a forge used to produce wrought iron from pig iron by decarburization in a process called "fining" which involved liquifying cast iron in a fining hearth and removing carbon from the molten cast iron through oxidation.
Fischer–Tropsch process
The Fischer–Tropsch process (FT) is a collection of chemical reactions that converts a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, known as syngas, into liquid hydrocarbons.
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Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
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Floppy disk
A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk.
In metallurgy, a flux is a chemical reducing agent, flowing agent, or purifying agent.
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Forging
Forging is a manufacturing process involving the shaping of metal using localized compressive forces.
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Formation and evolution of the Solar System
There is evidence that the formation of the Solar System began about 4.6 billion years ago with the gravitational collapse of a small part of a giant molecular cloud.
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Fossil fuel
A fossil fuel is a carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material such as coal, oil, and natural gas, formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the remains of prehistoric organisms (animals, plants and planktons), a process that occurs within geological formations.
Foundry
A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings.
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Frederick William III of Prussia
Frederick William III (Friedrich Wilhelm III.; 3 August 1770 – 7 June 1840) was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840.
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Fugacity
In chemical thermodynamics, the fugacity of a real gas is an effective partial pressure which replaces the mechanical partial pressure in an accurate computation of chemical equilibrium.
Galvanization
Galvanization or galvanizing (also spelled galvanisation or galvanising) is the process of applying a protective zinc coating to steel or iron, to prevent rusting.
Gamma
Gamma (uppercase, lowercase; gámma) is the third letter of the Greek alphabet.
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Gastrointestinal tract
The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract, digestive tract, alimentary canal) is the tract or passageway of the digestive system that leads from the mouth to the anus. The GI tract contains all the major organs of the digestive system, in humans and other animals, including the esophagus, stomach, and intestines.
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Genetic disorder
A genetic disorder is a health problem caused by one or more abnormalities in the genome.
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson FRS (14 July 1921 – 26 September 1996) was a Nobel laureate English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis.
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Gerald Avery Wainwright
Gerald Avery Wainwright (1879–1964) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who worked on excavations in Egypt and Sudan.
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German campaign of 1813
The German campaign (lit) was fought in 1813.
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Gerzeh culture
The Gerzeh culture, also called Naqada II, refers to the archaeological stage at Gerzeh (also Girza or Jirzah), a prehistoric Egyptian cemetery located along the west bank of the Nile.
Glucose
Glucose is a sugar with the molecular formula.
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Glycine
Glycine (symbol Gly or G) is an amino acid that has a single hydrogen atom as its side chain.
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Graphite
Graphite is a crystalline form of the element carbon. Iron and Graphite are native element minerals.
Gray iron
Gray iron, or grey cast iron, is a type of cast iron that has a graphitic microstructure.
Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..
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Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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Haber process
The Haber process, also called the Haber–Bosch process, is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia.
Half sandwich compound
Half sandwich compounds, also known as piano stool complexes, are organometallic complexes that feature a cyclic polyhapto ligand bound to an MLn center, where L is a unidentate ligand.
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Half-life
Half-life (symbol) is the time required for a quantity (of substance) to reduce to half of its initial value.
Halide
In chemistry, a halide (rarely halogenide) is a binary chemical compound, of which one part is a halogen atom and the other part is an element or radical that is less electronegative (or more electropositive) than the halogen, to make a fluoride, chloride, bromide, iodide, astatide, or theoretically tennesside compound.
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Hamersley Range
The Hamersley Range is a mountainous region of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Hard disk drive
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.
Heart
The heart is a muscular organ found in most animals.
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Heat treating
Heat treating (or heat treatment) is a group of industrial, thermal and metalworking processes used to alter the physical, and sometimes chemical, properties of a material.
Hematite
Hematite, also spelled as haematite, is a common iron oxide compound with the formula, Fe2O3 and is widely found in rocks and soils.
Heme
Heme (American English), or haem (Commonwealth English, both pronounced /hi:m/), is a ring-shaped iron-containing molecular component of hemoglobin, which is necessary to bind oxygen in the bloodstream.
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Hemerythrin
Hemerythrin (also spelled haemerythrin; blood, red) is an oligomeric protein responsible for oxygen (O2) transport in the marine invertebrate phyla of sipunculids, priapulids, brachiopods, and in a single annelid worm genus, Magelona.
Hemoglobin
Hemoglobin (haemoglobin, Hb or Hgb) is a protein containing iron that facilitates the transport of oxygen in red blood cells.
Hemoprotein
A hemeprotein (or haemprotein; also hemoprotein or haemoprotein), or heme protein, is a protein that contains a heme prosthetic group.
Henry Bessemer
Sir Henry Bessemer (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English inventor, whose steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years.
Henry Cort
Henry Cort (c. 1740 – 23 May 1800) was an English ironware producer who was formerly a Navy pay agent.
Hepcidin
Hepcidin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HAMP gene.
Hesiod
Hesiod (or; Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.
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Hexaferrum
Hexaferrum and epsilon iron (ε-Fe) are synonyms for the hexagonal close-packed (HCP) phase of iron that is stable only at extremely high pressure.
Hexane
Hexane or n-hexane is an organic compound, a straight-chain alkane with six carbon atoms and the molecular formula C6H14.
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High-strength low-alloy steel
High-strength low-alloy steel (HSLA) is a type of alloy steel that provides better mechanical properties or greater resistance to corrosion than carbon steel.
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High-valent iron
High-valent iron commonly denotes compounds and intermediates in which iron is found in a formal oxidation state > 3 that show a number of bonds > 6 with a coordination number ≤ 6.
Hippocampus
The hippocampus (hippocampi; via Latin from Greek ἱππόκαμπος, 'seahorse') is a major component of the brain of humans and other vertebrates.
Histidine
Histidine (symbol His or H) is an essential amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins.
History of China
The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area.
History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent
The history of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent began prior to the 3rd millennium BCE.
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History of the steel industry (1970–present)
The global steel industry has been going through major changes since 1970.
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Hittites
The Hittites were an Anatolian Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of Bronze Age West Asia.
Hull (watercraft)
A hull is the watertight body of a ship, boat, submarine, or flying boat.
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Human iron metabolism is the set of chemical reactions that maintain human homeostasis of iron at the systemic and cellular level.
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Hydrate
In chemistry, a hydrate is a substance that contains water or its constituent elements.
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Hydrocarbon
In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon.
Hydrochloric acid
Hydrochloric acid, also known as muriatic acid or spirits of salt, is an aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride (HCl).
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Hydrogen
Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1. Iron and Hydrogen are chemical elements.
Hydrogen bond
In chemistry, a hydrogen bond (or H-bond) is primarily an electrostatic force of attraction between a hydrogen (H) atom which is covalently bonded to a more electronegative "donor" atom or group (Dn), and another electronegative atom bearing a lone pair of electrons—the hydrogen bond acceptor (Ac).
Hydrogen halide
In chemistry, hydrogen halides (hydrohalic acids when in the aqueous phase) are diatomic, inorganic compounds that function as Arrhenius acids.
Hydrogenase
A hydrogenase is an enzyme that catalyses the reversible oxidation of molecular hydrogen (H2), as shown below: Hydrogen uptake is coupled to the reduction of electron acceptors such as oxygen, nitrate, sulfate, carbon dioxide, and fumarate.
Hydrolysis
Hydrolysis is any chemical reaction in which a molecule of water breaks one or more chemical bonds.
Igneous rock
Igneous rock, or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.
Imidazole
Imidazole (ImH) is an organic compound with the formula C3N2H4.
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.
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Inorganic Chemistry (journal)
Inorganic Chemistry is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Chemical Society since 1962.
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Inorganica Chimica Acta
Inorganica Chimica Acta is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1967 that covers original research and reviews of fundamental and applied aspects of inorganic chemistry.
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International Journal of Hematology
International Journal of Hematology is the official journal of the Japanese Society of Hematology.
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International Resource Panel
The International Resource Panel is a scientific panel of experts that aims to help nations use natural resources sustainably without compromising economic growth and human needs.
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Intravenous iron infusion
Intravenous (IV) iron infusion is a therapy in which a combination of iron and saline solution is delivered directly into the bloodstream through a vein, in patients suffering iron deficiency, iron-deficiency anaemia and chronic kidney disease.
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Inuit
Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
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Iodine
Iodine is a chemical element; it has symbol I and atomic number 53. Iron and Iodine are chemical elements and dietary minerals.
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Iron, when used metaphorically, refers to certain traits of the metal iron.
Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
Iron Cross
The Iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz,, abbreviated EK) was a military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire (1871–1918) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945).
Iron cycle
The iron cycle (Fe) is the biogeochemical cycle of iron through the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and lithosphere.
Iron deficiency
Iron deficiency, or sideropenia, is the state in which a body lacks enough iron to supply its needs.
Iron fertilization
Iron fertilization is the intentional introduction of iron-containing compounds (like iron sulfate) to iron-poor areas of the ocean surface to stimulate phytoplankton production.
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Iron group
In chemistry and physics, the iron group refers to elements that are in some way related to iron; mostly in period (row) 4 of the periodic table.
Iron in folklore
Iron has a long and varied tradition in the mythology and folklore of the world.
Iron meteorite
Iron meteorites, also called siderites or ferrous meteorites, are a type of meteorite that consist overwhelmingly of an iron–nickel alloy known as meteoric iron that usually consists of two mineral phases: kamacite and taenite.
Iron nanoparticle
Nanoscale iron particles are sub-micrometer particles of iron metal.
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Iron ore
Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.
Iron overload
Iron overload (also known as haemochromatosis or hemochromatosis) is the abnormal and increased accumulation of total iron in the body, leading to organ damage.
Iron oxide
Iron oxides are chemical compounds composed of iron and oxygen.
Iron pentacarbonyl
Iron pentacarbonyl, also known as iron carbonyl, is the compound with formula.
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Iron supplement
Iron supplements, also known as iron salts and iron pills, are a number of iron formulations used to treat and prevent iron deficiency including iron deficiency anemia.
Iron(II) carbonate
Iron(II) carbonate, or ferrous carbonate, is a chemical compound with formula, that occurs naturally as the mineral siderite.
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Iron(II) chloride
Iron(II) chloride, also known as ferrous chloride, is the chemical compound of formula FeCl2.
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Iron(II) fumarate
Iron(II) fumarate, also known as ferrous fumarate, is the iron(II) salt of fumaric acid, occurring as a reddish-orange powder, used to supplement iron intake. Iron and iron(II) fumarate are dietary minerals.
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Iron(II) oxalate
Ferrous oxalate (iron(II) oxalate) are inorganic compound with the formula FeC2O4(H2O)x where x is 0 or 2.
Iron(II) oxide
Iron(II) oxide or ferrous oxide is the inorganic compound with the formula FeO.
Iron(II) sulfate
Iron(II) sulfate (British English: iron(II) sulphate) or ferrous sulfate denotes a range of salts with the formula FeSO4·xH2O.
Iron(II,III) oxide
Iron(II,III) oxide, or black iron oxide, is the chemical compound with formula Fe3O4.
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Iron(III) chloride
Iron(III) chloride describes the inorganic compounds with the formula (H2O)x.
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Iron(III) iodide
Iron(III) iodide is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula FeI3.
Iron(III) oxide
Iron(III) oxide or ferric oxide is the inorganic compound with the formula Fe2O3.
Iron(III) oxide-hydroxide
Iron(III) oxide-hydroxide or ferric oxyhydroxideA.
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Iron(III) sulfate
Iron(III) sulfate (or ferric sulfate), is a family of inorganic compounds with the formula Fe2(SO4)3(H2O)n.
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Iron-56
Iron-56 (56Fe) is the most common isotope of iron.
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Iron-deficiency anemia
Iron-deficiency anemia is anemia caused by a lack of iron.
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Iron-oxidizing bacteria
Iron-oxidizing bacteria in surface water Iron-oxidizing bacteria (or iron bacteria) are chemotrophic bacteria that derive energy by oxidizing dissolved iron.
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Iron-responsive element-binding protein
The iron-responsive element-binding proteins, also known as IRE-BP, IRBP, IRP and IFR, bind to iron-responsive elements (IREs) in the regulation of human iron metabolism.
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Iron-sulfur protein
Iron–sulfur proteins are proteins characterized by the presence of iron–sulfur clusters containing sulfide-linked di-, tri-, and tetrairon centers in variable oxidation states.
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Iron–platinum nanoparticle
Iron–platinum nanoparticles (FePt NPs) are 3D superlattices composed of an approximately equal atomic ratio of Fe and Pt.
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Iron–sulfur cluster
Iron–sulfur clusters are molecular ensembles of iron and sulfide.
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Isotope
Isotopes are distinct nuclear species (or nuclides) of the same chemical element.
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Isotopes of nickel
Naturally occurring nickel (28Ni) is composed of five stable isotopes;,,, and, with being the most abundant (68.077% natural abundance).
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Jiangsu
Jiangsu is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China.
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Joseph Hall (1789–1862), the inventor of 'Wet Puddling', was born in 1789 and apprenticed in 1806 as a puddler to use Henry Cort's puddling process.
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Journal of the American Chemical Society
The Journal of the American Chemical Society (also known as JACS) is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1879 by the American Chemical Society.
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Journal of the Chemical Society
The Journal of the Chemical Society was a scientific journal established by the Chemical Society in 1849 as the Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society.
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Kamacite
Kamacite is an alloy of iron and nickel, which is found on Earth only in meteorites. Iron and Kamacite are cubic minerals, minerals in space group 229 and native element minerals.
Ketone
In organic chemistry, a ketone is an organic compound with the structure, where R and R' can be a variety of carbon-containing substituents.
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Kiirunavaara
Kiirunavaara (Northern Sami: Gironvárri, Meänkieli: Kierunavaara) is a mountain situated in Kiruna Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden.
Kiln
A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes.
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Knölker complex
The Knölker complex is an organoiron compound, which is a catalyst for transfer hydrogenation.
Latent iron deficiency
Latent iron deficiency (LID), also called iron-deficient erythropoiesis, is a medical condition in which there is evidence of iron deficiency without anemia (normal hemoglobin level).
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federally funded research and development center in Livermore, California, United States.
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Lead
Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82. Iron and Lead are chemical elements and native element minerals.
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Leaf vegetable
Leaf vegetables, also called leafy greens, pot herbs, vegetable greens, or simply greens, are plant leaves eaten as a vegetable, sometimes accompanied by tender petioles and shoots.
Lethal dose
In toxicology, the lethal dose (LD) is an indication of the lethal toxicity of a given substance or type of radiation.
Levant
The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.
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Light-dependent reactions
Light-dependent reactions are certain photochemical reactions involved in photosynthesis, the main process by which plants acquire energy.
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Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
Lipid
Lipids are a broad group of organic compounds which include fats, waxes, sterols, fat-soluble vitamins (such as vitamins A, D, E and K), monoglycerides, diglycerides, phospholipids, and others.
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Lipoxygenase
Lipoxygenases (LOX) are a family of (non-heme) iron-containing enzymes, more specifically oxidative enzymes, most of which catalyze the dioxygenation of polyunsaturated fatty acids in lipids containing a cis,cis-1,4-pentadiene into cell signaling agents that serve diverse roles as autocrine signals that regulate the function of their parent cells, paracrine signals that regulate the function of nearby cells, and endocrine signals that regulate the function of distant cells.
List of copper alloys
Copper alloys are metal alloys that have copper as their principal component.
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List of countries by iron ore production
This is a list of countries by iron ore production based on U.S. Geological Survey data.
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Liver
The liver is a major metabolic organ exclusively found in vertebrate animals, which performs many essential biological functions such as detoxification of the organism, and the synthesis of proteins and various other biochemicals necessary for digestion and growth.
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Liver failure
Liver failure is the inability of the liver to perform its normal synthetic and metabolic functions as part of normal physiology.
Lodestone
Lodestones are naturally magnetized pieces of the mineral magnetite.
Lorestan province
Lorestan Province (استان لرستان) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.
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Lower mantle
The lower mantle, historically also known as the mesosphere, represents approximately 56% of Earth's total volume, and is the region from 660 to 2900 km below Earth's surface; between the transition zone and the outer core.
Luhe County
Luhe County is a county of eastern Guangdong province, China.
M-type asteroid
M-type (aka M-class) asteroids are a spectral class of asteroids which appear to contain higher concentrations of metal phases (e.g. iron-nickel) than other asteroid classes, and are widely thought to be the source of iron meteorites.
A machine tool is a machine for handling or machining metal or other rigid materials, usually by cutting, boring, grinding, shearing, or other forms of deformations.
Machining
Machining is a manufacturing process where a desired shape or part is created using the controlled removal of material, most often metal, from a larger piece of raw material by cutting.
Magnesium
Magnesium is a chemical element; it has symbol Mg and atomic number 12. Iron and Magnesium are chemical elements, dietary minerals and pyrotechnic fuels.
Magnet
A magnet is a material or object that produces a magnetic field.
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Magnetic domain
A magnetic domain is a region within a magnetic material in which the magnetization is in a uniform direction.
Magnetic field
A magnetic field (sometimes called B-field) is a physical field that describes the magnetic influence on moving electric charges, electric currents, and magnetic materials.
Magnetic resonance imaging
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes inside the body.
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Magnetic storage
Magnetic storage or magnetic recording is the storage of data on a magnetized medium.
Magnetic tape
Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic storage made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film.
Magnetite
Magnetite is a mineral and one of the main iron ores, with the chemical formula. Iron and Magnetite are cubic minerals and Ferromagnetic materials.
Malnutrition
Malnutrition occurs when an organism gets too few or too many nutrients, resulting in health problems.
Manganese
Manganese is a chemical element; it has symbol Mn and atomic number 25. Iron and Manganese are chemical elements, chemical elements with body-centered cubic structure, dietary minerals, native element minerals and transition metals.
Marine invertebrates
Marine invertebrates are the invertebrates that live in marine habitats.
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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.
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Mars surface color
The surface color of the planet Mars appears reddish from a distance because of rusty atmospheric dust.
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Martensite
Martensite is a very hard form of steel crystalline structure.
Mass spectrometry
Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique that is used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of ions.
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Mössbauer effect
The Mössbauer effect, or recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence, is a physical phenomenon discovered by Rudolf Mössbauer in 1958.
Mössbauer spectroscopy
Mössbauer spectroscopy is a spectroscopic technique based on the Mössbauer effect.
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Melting point
The melting point (or, rarely, liquefaction point) of a substance is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid.
Menopause
Menopause, also known as the climacteric, is the time when menstrual periods permanently stop, marking the end of reproduction.
Mercury (element)
Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80. Iron and Mercury (element) are chemical elements, native element minerals and transition metals.
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Mercury (planet)
Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System.
Mesabi Range
The Mesabi Iron Range is a mining district and mountain range in northeastern Minnesota following an elongate trend containing large deposits of iron ore.
Metabolic acidosis is a serious electrolyte disorder characterized by an imbalance in the body's acid-base balance.
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A metal is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well.
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In chemistry, metal aquo complexes are coordination compounds containing metal ions with only water as a ligand.
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Metal carbonyls are coordination complexes of transition metals with carbon monoxide ligands. Iron and metal carbonyl are transition metals.
The report Metal Stocks in Society: Scientific Synthesis was the first of six scientific assessments on global metals to be published by the International Resource Panel (IRP) of the United Nations Environment Programme.
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In astronomy, metallicity is the abundance of elements present in an object that are heavier than hydrogen and helium.
Metalloprotein is a generic term for a protein that contains a metal ion cofactor.
A metallurgical furnace, often simply referred to as a furnace when the context is known, is an industrial furnace used to heat, melt, or otherwise process metals.
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The Metamorphoses (Metamorphōsēs, from μεταμορφώσεις: "Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid.
Meteoric iron
Meteoric iron, sometimes meteoritic iron, is a native metal and early-universe protoplanetary-disk remnant found in meteorites and made from the elements iron and nickel, mainly in the form of the mineral phases kamacite and taenite. Iron and meteoric iron are native element minerals.
Meteorite
A meteorite is a rock that originated in outer space and has fallen to the surface of a planet or moon.
Methane
Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one carbon atom bonded to four hydrogen atoms).
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Methane monooxygenase
Methane monooxygenase (MMO) is an enzyme capable of oxidizing the C-H bond in methane as well as other alkanes.
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Methanol
Methanol (also called methyl alcohol and wood spirit, amongst other names) is an organic chemical compound and the simplest aliphatic alcohol, with the chemical formula (a methyl group linked to a hydroxyl group, often abbreviated as MeOH).
Methionine
Methionine (symbol Met or M) is an essential amino acid in humans.
Michael Witzel
Michael Witzel (born July 18, 1943) is a German-American philologist, comparative mythologist and Indologist.
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Mineral
In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.
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Mixed-valence complex
Mixed valence complexes contain an element which is present in more than one oxidation state.
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Modern era
The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human history.
Moiety (chemistry)
In organic chemistry, a moiety is a part of a molecule that is given a name because it is identified as a part of other molecules as well.
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Molasses
Molasses is a viscous byproduct, principally obtained from the refining of sugarcane or sugar beet juice into sugar.
Molybdenum
Molybdenum is a chemical element; it has symbol Mo (from Neo-Latin molybdaenum) and atomic number 42. Iron and Molybdenum are chemical elements, chemical elements with body-centered cubic structure, dietary minerals, native element minerals and transition metals.
Monocrystalline whisker
A monocrystalline whisker is a filament of material that is structured as a single, defect-free crystal.
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Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.
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Muscle
Muscle is a soft tissue, one of the four basic types of animal tissue.
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Mussel
Mussel is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and freshwater habitats.
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Myoglobin
Myoglobin (symbol Mb or MB) is an iron- and oxygen-binding protein found in the cardiac and skeletal muscle tissue of vertebrates in general and in almost all mammals.
Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
Neoplasm
A neoplasm is a type of abnormal and excessive growth of tissue.
Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28. Iron and Nickel are chemical elements, dietary minerals, Ferromagnetic materials, native element minerals and transition metals.
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Nickel-62
Nickel-62 is an isotope of nickel having 28 protons and 34 neutrons.
Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr (7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
Nitric acid
Nitric acid is the inorganic compound with the formula.
Nitrobenzene
Nitrobenzene is an aromatic nitro compound and the simplest of the nitrobenzenes, with the chemical formula C6H5NO2.
Nitrogen
Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol N and atomic number 7. Iron and Nitrogen are chemical elements.
Nitrogen fixation
Nitrogen fixation is a chemical process by which molecular dinitrogen is converted into ammonia.
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Nitrogenase
Nitrogenases are enzymes that are produced by certain bacteria, such as cyanobacteria (blue-green bacteria) and rhizobacteria.
Nitrospirota
Nitrospirota is a phylum of bacteria.
Non-stoichiometric compound
Non-stoichiometric compounds are chemical compounds, almost always solid inorganic compounds, having elemental composition whose proportions cannot be represented by a ratio of small natural numbers (i.e. an empirical formula); most often, in such materials, some small percentage of atoms are missing or too many atoms are packed into an otherwise perfect lattice work.
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Nuclear fusion
Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei, usually deuterium and tritium (hydrogen isotopes), combine to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles (neutrons or protons).
Nuclear reaction
In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, a nuclear reaction is a process in which two nuclei, or a nucleus and an external subatomic particle, collide to produce one or more new nuclides.
Nucleosynthesis
Nucleosynthesis is the process that creates new atomic nuclei from pre-existing nucleons (protons and neutrons) and nuclei.
Nuclide
A nuclide (or nucleide, from nucleus, also known as nuclear species) is a class of atoms characterized by their number of protons, Z, their number of neutrons, N, and their nuclear energy state.
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Ochre
Ochre, iron ochre, or ocher in American English, is a natural clay earth pigment, a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand.
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Open-hearth furnace
An open-hearth furnace or open hearth furnace is any of several kinds of industrial furnace in which excess carbon and other impurities are burnt out of pig iron to produce steel.
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Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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Organoiron chemistry
Organoiron chemistry is the chemistry of iron compounds containing a carbon-to-iron chemical bond.
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Organometallic chemistry is the study of organometallic compounds, chemical compounds containing at least one chemical bond between a carbon atom of an organic molecule and a metal, including alkali, alkaline earth, and transition metals, and sometimes broadened to include metalloids like boron, silicon, and selenium, as well.
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Orthorhombic crystal system
In crystallography, the orthorhombic crystal system is one of the 7 crystal systems.
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Osmium
Osmium is a chemical element; it has symbol Os and atomic number 76. Iron and Osmium are chemical elements, native element minerals and transition metals.
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Oxalate
Oxalate (systematic IUPAC name: ethanedioate) is an anion with the chemical formula formula.
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Oxidation state
In chemistry, the oxidation state, or oxidation number, is the hypothetical charge of an atom if all of its bonds to other atoms were fully ionic.
Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8. Iron and Oxygen are chemical elements.
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Oyster
Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats.
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Paint
Paint is a material or mixture that, when applied to a solid material and allowed to dry, adds a film-like layer.
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Painted Hills
The Painted Hills is a geologic site in Wheeler County, Oregon that is one of the three units of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument along with Sheep Rock and Clarno.
Paramagnetism
Paramagnetism is a form of magnetism whereby some materials are weakly attracted by an externally applied magnetic field, and form internal, induced magnetic fields in the direction of the applied magnetic field.
Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term neurodegenerative disease of mainly the central nervous system that affects both the motor and non-motor systems of the body.
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Passivation (chemistry)
In physical chemistry and engineering, passivation is coating a material so that it becomes "passive", that is, less readily affected or corroded by the environment.
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Pearlite
Pearlite is a two-phased, lamellar (or layered) structure composed of alternating layers of ferrite (87.5 wt%) and cementite (12.5 wt%) that occurs in some steels and cast irons.
Pelletizing
Pelletizing is the process of compressing or molding a material into the shape of a pellet.
Pentlandite
Pentlandite is an iron–nickel sulfide with the chemical formula. Iron and Pentlandite are cubic minerals and minerals in space group 225.
Periclase
Periclase is a magnesium mineral that occurs naturally in contact metamorphic rocks and is a major component of most basic refractory bricks. Iron and Periclase are cubic minerals and minerals in space group 225.
Periodic table
The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the elements, is an ordered arrangement of the chemical elements into rows ("periods") and columns ("groups"). Iron and periodic table are chemical elements.
Periodic Videos
Periodic Videos (also known as The Periodic Table of Videos) is a video project and YouTube channel on chemistry.
Peroxide
In chemistry, peroxides are a group of compounds with the structure, where the R's represent a radical (a portion of a complete molecule; not necessarily a free radical) and O's are single oxygen atoms.
Phenol
Phenol (also known as carbolic acid, phenolic acid, or benzenol) is an aromatic organic compound with the molecular formula.
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Phosphate
In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid.
Phosphorus
Phosphorus is a chemical element; it has symbol P and atomic number 15. Iron and Phosphorus are chemical elements, chemical elements with body-centered cubic structure, dietary minerals and pyrotechnic fuels.
Phosphorus trifluoride
Phosphorus trifluoride (formula PF3), is a colorless and odorless gas.
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Physics and Chemistry of Minerals
Physics and Chemistry of Minerals is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published monthly by Springer Science+Business Media.
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Phytoplankton
Phytoplankton are the autotrophic (self-feeding) components of the plankton community and a key part of ocean and freshwater ecosystems.
Pig iron
Pig iron, also known as crude iron, is an intermediate good used by the iron industry in the production of steel.
Pigment
A pigment is a powder used to add color or change visual appearance.
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Planetary core
A planetary core consists of the innermost layers of a planet.
Planetary differentiation
In planetary science, planetary differentiation is the process by which the chemical elements of a planetary body accumulate in different areas of that body, due to their physical or chemical behavior (e.g. density and chemical affinities).
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Planetary science
Planetary science (or more rarely, planetology) is the scientific study of planets (including Earth), celestial bodies (such as moons, asteroids, comets) and planetary systems (in particular those of the Solar System) and the processes of their formation.
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Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
Polymer
A polymer is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules linked together into chains of repeating subunits.
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Polysulfide
Polysulfides are a class of chemical compounds derived from anionic chains of sulfur atoms.
Porphyrin
Porphyrins are a group of heterocyclic macrocycle organic compounds, composed of four modified pyrrole subunits interconnected at their α carbon atoms via methine bridges (.
Potassium ferrate
Potassium ferrate is the chemical compound with the formula.
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Potassium ferricyanide
Potassium ferricyanide is the chemical compound with the formula K3.
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Potassium ferrioxalate
Potassium ferrioxalate, also called potassium trisoxalatoferrate or potassium tris(oxalato)ferrate(III) is a chemical compound with the formula.
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Potassium ferrocyanide
Potassium hexacyanidoferrate(II) is the inorganic compound with formula K4·3H2O.
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Poultry
Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of harvesting animal products such as meat, eggs or feathers.
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Printed circuit board
A printed circuit board (PCB), also called printed wiring board (PWB), is a medium used to connect or "wire" components to one another in a circuit.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.
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Protein
Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.
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Proton decay
In particle physics, proton decay is a hypothetical form of particle decay in which the proton decays into lighter subatomic particles, such as a neutral pion and a positron.
Prussian blue
Prussian blue (also known as Berlin blue, Brandenburg blue, Parisian and Paris blue) is a dark blue pigment produced by oxidation of ferrous ferrocyanide salts.
Puddling is the process of converting pig iron to bar (wrought) iron in a coal fired reverberatory furnace.
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Pyrite
The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron (II) disulfide). Iron and pyrite are cubic minerals.
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Pyrophoricity
A substance is pyrophoric (from πυροφόρος, pyrophoros, 'fire-bearing') if it ignites spontaneously in air at or below (for gases) or within 5 minutes after coming into contact with air (for liquids and solids).
Pyrrhotite
Pyrrhotite (pyrrhos in Greek meaning "flame-coloured") is an iron sulfide mineral with the formula Fe(1-x)S (x .
Quantum tunnelling
In physics, quantum tunnelling, barrier penetration, or simply tunnelling is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which an object such as an electron or atom passes through a potential energy barrier that, according to classical mechanics, should not be passable due to the object not having sufficient energy to pass or surmount the barrier.
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R-process
In nuclear astrophysics, the rapid neutron-capture process, also known as the r-process, is a set of nuclear reactions that is responsible for the creation of approximately half of the atomic nuclei heavier than iron, the "heavy elements", with the other half produced by the p-process and ''s''-process.
Radical (chemistry)
In chemistry, a radical, also known as a free radical, is an atom, molecule, or ion that has at least one unpaired valence electron.
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Rail transport
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.
Railway track
A railway track (British English and UIC terminology) or railroad track (American English), also known as a train track or permanent way (often "perway" in Australia), is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, British English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.
Reagent
In chemistry, a reagent or analytical reagent is a substance or compound added to a system to cause a chemical reaction, or test if one occurs.
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Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
The Realencyclopädie (German for "Practical Encyclopedia"; RE) is a series of German encyclopedias on Greco-Roman topics and scholarship.
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Rebar
Rebar (short for reinforcing bar), known when massed as reinforcing steel or steel reinforcement, is a steel bar used as a tension device in reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures to strengthen and aid the concrete under tension. Iron and Rebar are Building materials.
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Red blood cell
Red blood cells (RBCs), referred to as erythrocytes (with -cyte translated as 'cell' in modern usage) in academia and medical publishing, also known as red cells, erythroid cells, and rarely haematids, are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate's principal means of delivering oxygen to the body tissues—via blood flow through the circulatory system.
Red giant
A red giant is a luminous giant star of low or intermediate mass (roughly 0.3–8 solar masses) in a late phase of stellar evolution.
Red meat
In gastronomy, red meat is commonly red when raw (and a dark color after it is cooked), in contrast to white meat, which is pale in color before (and after) cooking.
Redox
Redox (reduction–oxidation or oxidation–reduction) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of the reactants change.
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Reduction potential
Redox potential (also known as oxidation / reduction potential, ORP, pe, E_, or E_) is a measure of the tendency of a chemical species to acquire electrons from or lose electrons to an electrode and thereby be reduced or oxidised respectively.
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Reference Daily Intake
In the U.S. and Canada, the Reference Daily Intake (RDI) is used in nutrition labeling on food and dietary supplement products to indicate the daily intake level of a nutrient that is considered to be sufficient to meet the requirements of 97–98% of healthy individuals in every demographic in the United States. Iron and Reference Daily Intake are dietary minerals.
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Refractory
In materials science, a refractory (or refractory material) is a material that is resistant to decomposition by heat or chemical attack that retains its strength and rigidity at high temperatures.
Regolith
Regolith is a blanket of unconsolidated, loose, heterogeneous superficial deposits covering solid rock.
Reviews of Modern Physics
Reviews of Modern Physics (often abbreviated RMP) is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Physical Society.
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Ribonucleotide reductase
Ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), also known as ribonucleoside diphosphate reductase, is an enzyme that catalyzes the formation of deoxyribonucleotides from ribonucleotides.
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Ribose
Ribose is a simple sugar and carbohydrate with molecular formula C5H10O5 and the linear-form composition H−(C.
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Rigveda
The Rigveda or Rig Veda (ऋग्वेद,, from ऋच्, "praise" and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (sūktas).
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Ringwoodite
Ringwoodite is a high-pressure phase of Mg2SiO4 (magnesium silicate) formed at high temperatures and pressures of the Earth's mantle between depth. Iron and Ringwoodite are cubic minerals.
RMI (energy organization)
RMI, formerly known as the Rocky Mountain Institute, is a think tank in the United States co-founded by Amory Lovins dedicated to research, publication, consulting, and lecturing in the field of sustainability, with a focus on profitable innovations for energy and resource efficiency.
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Road
A road is a thoroughfare for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians.
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Robert Burns Woodward
Robert Burns Woodward (April 10, 1917 – July 8, 1979) was an American organic chemist.
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Rockwell scale
The Rockwell scale is a hardness scale based on indentation hardness of a material.
In metalworking, rolling is a metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through one or more pairs of rolls to reduce the thickness, to make the thickness uniform, and/or to impart a desired mechanical property.
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Room temperature
Room temperature, colloquially, denotes the range of air temperatures most people find comfortable indoors while dressed in typical clothing.
Royal family
A royal family is the immediate family of kings/queens, emirs/emiras, sultans/sultanas, or raja/rani and sometimes their extended family.
Rubredoxin
Rubredoxins are a class of low-molecular-weight iron-containing proteins found in sulfur-metabolizing bacteria and archaea.
Rust
Rust is an iron oxide, a usually reddish-brown oxide formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the catalytic presence of water or air moisture.
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Ruthenium
Ruthenium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ru and atomic number 44. Iron and Ruthenium are chemical elements, native element minerals and transition metals.
Sakha Republic
Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million.
Salt (chemistry)
In chemistry, a salt or ionic compound is a chemical compound consisting of an assembly of positively charged ions (cations) and negatively charged ions (anions), which results in a compound with no net electric charge (electrically neutral).
Sandwich compound
In organometallic chemistry, a sandwich compound is a chemical compound featuring a metal bound by haptic, covalent bonds to two arene (ring) ligands.
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Scandium
Scandium is a chemical element; it has symbol Sc and atomic number 21. Iron and Scandium are chemical elements and transition metals.
Sewage treatment
Sewage treatment (or domestic wastewater treatment, municipal wastewater treatment) is a type of wastewater treatment which aims to remove contaminants from sewage to produce an effluent that is suitable to discharge to the surrounding environment or an intended reuse application, thereby preventing water pollution from raw sewage discharges.
Shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.
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Shipwreck
A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water.
Shock (circulatory)
Shock is the state of insufficient blood flow to the tissues of the body as a result of problems with the circulatory system.
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Siderite
Siderite is a mineral composed of iron(II) carbonate (FeCO3).
Siderophore
Siderophores (Greek: "iron carrier") are small, high-affinity iron-chelating compounds that are secreted by microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi.
Silicate mineral
Silicate minerals are rock-forming minerals made up of silicate groups.
Silicate perovskite
Silicate perovskite is either (the magnesium end-member is called bridgmanite) or (calcium silicate known as davemaoite) when arranged in a perovskite structure.
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Silicon
Silicon is a chemical element; it has symbol Si and atomic number 14. Iron and Silicon are chemical elements, dietary minerals, native element minerals and pyrotechnic fuels.
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Silicon dioxide
Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, commonly found in nature as quartz.
Silicon-burning process
In astrophysics, silicon burning is a very brief sequence of nuclear fusion reactions that occur in massive stars with a minimum of about 8–11 solar masses.
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Slag
Slag is a by-product of smelting (pyrometallurgical) ores and recycled metals.
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Smelting
Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product.
Sodium chloride
Sodium chloride, commonly known as edible salt, is an ionic compound with the chemical formula NaCl, representing a 1:1 ratio of sodium and chlorine ions.
Sodium ferrioxalate
Sodium ferrioxalate are inorganic compounds with the formula (H2O)n.
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Sodium nitroprusside
Sodium nitroprusside (SNP), sold under the brand name Nitropress among others, is a medication used to lower blood pressure.
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Solar System
The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.
Song dynasty
The Song dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279.
Song Yingxing
Song Yingxing (Traditional Chinese: 宋應星; Simplified Chinese: 宋应星; Wade Giles: Sung Ying-Hsing; 1587-1666 AD) was a Chinese scientist and encyclopedist who lived during the late Ming Dynasty (1368–1644).
Spectrochemical series
A spectrochemical series is a list of ligands ordered by ligand "strength", and a list of metal ions based on oxidation number, group and element.
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Spin (physics)
Spin is an intrinsic form of angular momentum carried by elementary particles, and thus by composite particles such as hadrons, atomic nuclei, and atoms.
Spin quantum number
In physics and chemistry, the spin quantum number is a quantum number (designated) that describes the intrinsic angular momentum (or spin angular momentum, or simply ''spin'') of an electron or other particle.
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Spin states (d electrons)
Spin states when describing transition metal coordination complexes refers to the potential spin configurations of the central metal's d electrons.
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Sponge iron reaction
The sponge iron reaction (SIR) is a chemical process based on redox cycling of an iron-based contact mass, the first cycle is a conversion step between iron metal (Fe) and wuestite (FeO), the second cycle is a conversion step between wuestite (FeO) and magnetite (Fe3O4).
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Stability constants of complexes
In coordination chemistry, a stability constant (also called formation constant or binding constant) is an equilibrium constant for the formation of a complex in solution.
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Stable nuclide
Stable nuclides are nuclides that are not radioactive and so (unlike radionuclides) do not spontaneously undergo radioactive decay.
Stainless steel
Stainless steel, also known as inox, corrosion-resistant steel (CRES), and rustless steel, is an alloy of iron that is resistant to rusting and corrosion. Iron and Stainless steel are Building materials.
Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron. Iron and Steel are Building materials.
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Stellar population
In 1944, Walter Baade categorized groups of stars within the Milky Way into stellar populations.
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Stress concentration
In solid mechanics, a stress concentration (also called a stress raiser or a stress riser or notch sensitivity) is a location in an object where the stress is significantly greater than the surrounding region.
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Substantia nigra
The substantia nigra (SN) is a basal ganglia structure located in the midbrain that plays an important role in reward and movement.
Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans
Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans is a species of bacteria of the genus Sulfobacillus.
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Sulfolobus
Sulfolobus is a genus of microorganism in the family Sulfolobaceae.
Sulfur
Sulfur (also spelled sulphur in British English) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16. Iron and Sulfur are chemical elements, dietary minerals, native element minerals and pyrotechnic fuels.
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Sulfur dioxide
Sulfur dioxide (IUPAC-recommended spelling) or sulphur dioxide (traditional Commonwealth English) is the chemical compound with the formula.
Supernova
A supernova (supernovae or supernovas) is a powerful and luminous explosion of a star.
Supernova remnant
A supernova remnant (SNR) is the structure resulting from the explosion of a star in a supernova.
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Taenite
Taenite is a mineral found naturally on Earth mostly in iron meteorites. Iron and Taenite are cubic minerals, minerals in space group 225 and native element minerals.
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Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.
Telluric iron
Telluric iron, also called native iron, is iron that originated on Earth, and is found in a metallic form rather than as an ore. Iron and Telluric iron are cubic minerals, minerals in space group 229 and native element minerals.
Terrestrial planet
A terrestrial planet, telluric planet, or rocky planet, is a planet that is composed primarily of silicate, rocks or metals.
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Tetrakis(methylammonium) hexachloroferrate(III) chloride
Tetrakis(methylammonium) hexachloroferrate(III) chloride is a chemical compound with the formula (CH3NH3)4Cl.
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Thalamus
The thalamus (thalami; from Greek θάλαμος, "chamber") is a large mass of gray matter on the lateral walls of the third ventricle forming the dorsal part of the diencephalon (a division of the forebrain).
The Iron Bridge
The Iron Bridge is a cast iron arch bridge that crosses the River Severn in Shropshire, England.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Thermal decomposition
Thermal decomposition, or thermolysis, is a chemical decomposition of a substance caused by heat.
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Thermite
Thermite is a pyrotechnic composition of metal powder and metal oxide.
Thiocyanate
Thiocyanates are salts containing the thiocyanate anion (also known as rhodanide or rhodanate).
Timeline of the far future
While the future cannot be predicted with certainty, present understanding in various scientific fields allows for the prediction of some far-future events, if only in the broadest outline.
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Titanic
RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, United States.
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Tofu
is a food prepared by coagulating soy milk and then pressing the resulting curds into solid white blocks of varying softness: silken, soft, firm, extra (or super) firm. Tofu is also known as bean curd in English.
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Tonne
The tonne (or; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms.
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A tool is an object that can extend an individual's ability to modify features of the surrounding environment or help them accomplish a particular task.
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Toughness
In materials science and metallurgy, toughness is the ability of a material to absorb energy and plastically deform without fracturing.
Transfer hydrogenation
In chemistry, transfer hydrogenation is a chemical reaction involving the addition of hydrogen to a compound from a source other than molecular.
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Transferrin
Transferrins are glycoproteins found in vertebrates which bind and consequently mediate the transport of iron (Fe) through blood plasma.
Transformer
In electrical engineering, a transformer is a passive component that transfers electrical energy from one electrical circuit to another circuit, or multiple circuits.
In chemistry, a transition metal (or transition element) is a chemical element in the d-block of the periodic table (groups 3 to 12), though the elements of group 12 (and less often group 3) are sometimes excluded. Iron and transition metal are transition metals.
Transition zone (Earth)
The transition zone is the part of Earth's mantle that is located between the lower and the upper mantle, most strictly between the seismic-discontinuity depths of about, but more broadly defined as the zone encompassing those discontinuities, i.e., between about depth.
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Triiron dodecacarbonyl
Triiron dodecarbonyl is the organoiron compound with the formula Fe3(CO)12.
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Tungsten
Tungsten (also called wolfram) is a chemical element; it has symbol W and atomic number 74. Iron and Tungsten are chemical elements, chemical elements with body-centered cubic structure and transition metals.
Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun or Tutankhamen, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who ruled during the late Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt. Born Tutankhaten, he was likely a son of Akhenaten, thought to be the KV55 mummy. His mother was identified through DNA testing as The Younger Lady buried in KV35; she was a full sister of her husband.
Tutankhamun's meteoric iron dagger
Tutankhamun's meteoric iron dagger, also known as Tutankhamun's iron dagger and King Tut's dagger, is an iron-bladed dagger from the tomb of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun (reigned c. 1334–1325 BC).
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Type Ia supernova
A Type Ia supernova (read: "type one-A") is a type of supernova that occurs in binary systems (two stars orbiting one another) in which one of the stars is a white dwarf.
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Ultimate tensile strength
Ultimate tensile strength (also called UTS, tensile strength, TS, ultimate strength or F_\text in notation) is the maximum stress that a material can withstand while being stretched or pulled before breaking.
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United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system.
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Universe
The universe is all of space and time and their contents.
Vanadium
Vanadium is a chemical element; it has symbol V and atomic number 23. Iron and Vanadium are chemical elements, chemical elements with body-centered cubic structure, dietary minerals, native element minerals and transition metals.
Vasodilation
Vasodilation, also known as vasorelaxation, is the widening of blood vessels.
Vedas
The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.
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Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun.
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Vickers hardness test
The Vickers hardness test was developed in 1921 by Robert L. Smith and George E. Sandland at Vickers Ltd as an alternative to the Brinell method to measure the hardness of materials.
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Warring States period
The Warring States period was an era in ancient Chinese history characterized by warfare, bureaucratic and military reform, and political consolidation.
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Water
Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.
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Water of crystallization
In chemistry, water(s) of crystallization or water(s) of hydration are water molecules that are present inside crystals.
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Watercress
Watercress or yellowcress (Nasturtium officinale) is a species of aquatic flowering plant in the cabbage family, Brassicaceae.
Wüstite
Wüstite (FeO, sometimes also written as Fe0.95O) is a mineral form of mostly iron(II) oxide found with meteorites and native iron. Iron and Wüstite are cubic minerals and minerals in space group 225.
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Weapon
A weapon, arm, or armament is any implement or device that is used to deter, threaten, inflict physical damage, harm, or kill.
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Weathering
Weathering is the deterioration of rocks, soils and minerals (as well as wood and artificial materials) through contact with water, atmospheric gases, sunlight, and biological organisms.
WHO Model List of Essential Medicines
The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (aka Essential Medicines List or EML), published by the World Health Organization (WHO), contains the medications considered to be most effective and safe to meet the most important needs in a health system.
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Wootz steel
Wootz steel is a crucible steel characterized by a pattern of bands and high carbon content.
Works and Days
Works and Days (Érga kaì Hēmérai)The Works and Days is sometimes called by the Latin translation of the title, Opera et Dies.
Wrought iron
Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon content (less than 0.05%) in contrast to that of cast iron (2.1% to 4.5%). Iron and Wrought iron are Building materials.
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.
1,2-Bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane
1,2-Bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane (dppe) is an organophosphorus compound with the formula (PhPCH) (Ph.
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2nd millennium BC
The 2nd millennium BC spanned the years 2000 BC to 1001 BC.
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See also
Chemical elements with body-centered cubic structure
- Barium
- Caesium
- Chromium
- Darmstadtium
- Dubnium
- Europium
- Francium
- Iron
- Lithium
- Manganese
- Molybdenum
- Niobium
- Phosphorus
- Potassium
- Radium
- Roentgenium
- Rubidium
- Seaborgium
- Sodium
- Tantalum
- Tungsten
- Vanadium
Dietary minerals
- Boron
- Calcium
- Calcium in biology
- Chloride
- Chromium
- Cobalt
- Cobalt in biology
- Copper
- Deep ocean minerals
- Iodide
- Iodine
- Iodine in biology
- Iron
- Iron in biology
- Iron(II) fumarate
- Lithium in biology
- Magnesium
- Manganese
- Manganese in biology
- Mineral (nutrient)
- Mineral deficiencies
- Molybdenum
- Molybdenum in biology
- Nickel
- Octasulfur
- Phosphoric acids and phosphates
- Phosphorus
- Phosphorus oxoacid
- Potassium
- Potassium chloride
- Potassium in biology
- Pyrophosphate
- Reference Daily Intake
- Selenium
- Selenium in biology
- Silicon
- Sodium
- Sodium in biology
- Sodium molybdate
- Sodium selenite
- Sulfur
- Ultratrace element
- Vanadium
- Zinc
- Zinc L-aspartate
- Zinc L-carnosine
- Zinc in biology
- Zinc proteinate
Ferromagnetic materials
- Alnico
- Bismanol
- Caesium hexafluorocobaltate(IV)
- Calcium hexaboride
- Californium
- Chromium(IV) oxide
- Cobalt
- Cobalt ferrite
- Complex oxide
- Dysprosium
- Erbium
- Europium hydride
- Europium(II) oxide
- Fernico
- Ferrite (magnet)
- Gadolinium
- Gadolinium diiodide
- Gallium manganese arsenide
- Greigite
- Heusler compound
- Hexagonal ferrite
- Holmium
- Iron
- KS Steel
- MKM steel
- Magnadur
- Magnetic 2D materials
- Magnetic semiconductor
- Magnetite
- Manganese arsenide
- Monostrontium ruthenate
- Mu-metal
- Neodymium magnet
- Neodymium(II) hydride
- Nickel
- Permalloy
- Polder tensor
- Rare-earth magnet
- Samarium–cobalt magnet
- Sendust
- Suessite
- Terbium
- Uranium(III) hydride
- Vicalloy
- Yttrium iron garnet
Minerals in space group 225
- Alabandite
- Altaite
- Berzelianite
- Blue John (mineral)
- Bromargyrite
- Bunsenite
- Carlsbergite
- Carobbiite
- Cerianite-(Ce)
- Chlorargyrite
- Fluorite
- Fluorite structure
- Frankdicksonite
- Galena
- Gold
- Håleniusite-(La)
- Halite
- Hemusite
- Iron
- Keilite
- Manganosite
- Murdochite
- Native aluminium
- Native copper
- Niningerite
- Oldhamite
- Pentlandite
- Periclase
- Platinum
- Silver
- Sylvite
- Taenite
- Thorianite
- Uraninite
- Wüstite
- Zirkelite
Minerals in space group 229
Pyrotechnic fuels
- Aluminium
- Bamboo charcoal
- Boron
- Calcium disilicide
- Charcoal
- Ferrotitanium
- Iron
- Magnalium
- Magnesium
- Phosphorus
- Rocket fuels
- Silicon
- Stibnite
- Sulfur
- Titanium
- Titanium hydride
- Zinc
- Zirconium
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron
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