Autobiography of Iron

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Hi. I am Gold. I have been around since the beginning of time, but humans started to use me only

3000 years ago. Now, do not think that you can just beat me up. Although I am soft and weak, I can be stretched into a fine wire that is hardly visible to you guys.

I can be transformed into one of the strongest metal on Earth by only adding an ingredient known as Carbon. I am the most abundant metal in the universe, but I seem to hug my best friend, Magnet, as soon as it comes anywhere near me. However, I sometimes become its enemy and do not attract with it. Those things do not happen normally because I am a relatively cool person. When I got red hot at 1538ºC (melting point), I loose my friendship with magnet. Although I get angry at that point, I can still control myself until I get to 2861º C, which is when I start boiling. I am hard to catch without seeing. Some people think my family is too big. Well in a sense, I do have a big family. I am in a group called metals; more specifically transition metals. However, on the dark side, we almost never interact with each other because we cannot produce anything by working together. Besides that bozo, Oxygen, I react and bond with more elements than any other metal.

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I am a positive person and a respectful donator amongst us metals. I sometimes give my valance electrons to other non-metals. Depending how much stock the non-metal needs to become full, I give away one of 79 electrons. About 1 out of 130 of my atoms are like my clones. Those "fancy” scientists like to call them my isotopes. That is some weird language for "another form of an element." I have 18 of them. The most abundant one includes Gold 199. However, if I do get lost my parents come finding me in Australia, South Africa or the ...

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