I found a pretty cool resource on iron, one of my favorite funky transition metals.
Posted by Russell Whitaker at May 21, 2004 09:54 PM | TrackBackYou big, bad chemistry geek!
*sigh* A link with JUST enough 'pertinent to everyday life' and 'really ... quite ... interesting' information to have me read it through and add to my tremendous store of seemingly random factoids.
Knowing things like this make people inch away from me at dinner parties, you know.
Posted by: Monica on May 23, 2004 07:47 AMGotta make a correction in that page: the first sentence says that it was iron that gave us weapons and tools. Wrong, it was bronze, as in, The Bronze Age....
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One More Geek Who People Call "Cliff"