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| What is Iron's Atomic Number? |
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| What is the Atomic Mass of Iron? |
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| The Melting Point of Iron is |
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| 1811 K which is 1538 degrees Celsius or 2800 degrees Fahrenheit |
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| The Boiling Point of Iron is |
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| 3134 K which is 2861 degrees Celsius or 5182 degrees Fahrenheit |
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| 7.874 grams per cubic centimeter |
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| What is Iron at room temperature, and what/where is it on the periodic table? |
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| Iron is a solid at room temperature, and it is in the 4th period and the 8th group on the periodic table. |
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| How long has iron been being used? |
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| Archaeological evidence suggests that people have been using iron for at least 5000 years. |
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| Iron is the cheapest and one of the most abundant of all metals, and it comprises nearly 5.6% of the earth's crust. |
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| Iron is used to make Steel. Steel is an alloy of Iron and Carbon. Steel is used to make paper clips, skyscrapers, and everything in between. It also helps keep plants, animals, and humans. It creates chlorophyll in plants and is essential in the making of hemoglobin, which carries oxygen within red blood cells. Iron sulfate (Iron, Sulfur, and Tetraoxygen O4)is used to treat the blood disease anemia. |
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| How many Isotopes does Iron have? |
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| there are many known Isotopes of Iron, ranging from Fe-45, and Fe-72, having a Half-life of a mere 150 nanoseconds. Iron only has 3 stable isotopes, Fe-56, Fe-57, and Fe-58. |
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| What is the Electron Configuration of Iron? |
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| The name comes from the Anglo-Saxon word iron. However, the chemical symbol comes from the Latin word for iron, ferrum. |
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| What is the Ionization Energy of Iron? |
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| 7.902 eV (electron volts) |
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