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

Iron is an element. It is made of only one type of atom ... in aluminium foil which are all the same as each other. The periodic table can be divided into metals and non-metals.

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

"You have to understand that in my field of biochemistry and bioinorganic chemistry, in medicine and in life, iron is a trace element. These are elements that are present only in small amounts ...

These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are ... by 2026 The remaining 17 are trace elements needed in very small quantities. For example, iron is necessary for producing haemoglobin ...