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Besides plants, all animals, including humans, depend on magnesium for protein and DNA synthesis, muscle contraction, nerve function, regular heart beats, and many other internal functions.
Magnesium’s most common industrial use is to strengthen aluminum. When atoms of magnesium are sprinkled into aluminum to form an alloy of aluminum, the magnesium atoms act as “speed bumps.” When outside forces try to bend aluminum by forcing rows of aluminum atoms to roll over each other, the magnesium atoms stand in the way.
When it burns, magnesium gives off a bright white light, ideal for fireworks, flares, and special effects like lightning







Did you know that without magnesium, we’d have no food? That’s because at the center of every molecule of chlorophyll is a magnesium atom, and without that magnesium atom, chlorophyll would have no way to capture the energy in sunlight and turn it into chemical energy.
Besides plants, all animals, including humans, depend on magnesium for protein and DNA synthesis, muscle contraction, nerve function, regular heart beats, and many other internal functions.
Magnesium’s most common industrial use is to strengthen aluminum. When atoms of magnesium are sprinkled into aluminum to form an alloy of aluminum, the magnesium atoms act as “speed bumps.” When outside forces try to bend aluminum by forcing rows of aluminum atoms to roll over each other, the magnesium atoms stand in the way.
When it burns, magnesium gives off a bright white light, ideal for fireworks, flares, and special effects like lightning







Did you know that without magnesium, we’d have no food? That’s because at the center of every molecule of chlorophyll is a magnesium atom, and without that magnesium atom, chlorophyll would have no way to capture the energy in sunlight and turn it into chemical energy.
Besides plants, all animals, including humans, depend on magnesium for protein and DNA synthesis, muscle contraction, nerve function, regular heart beats, and many other internal functions.
Magnesium’s most common industrial use is to strengthen aluminum. When atoms of magnesium are sprinkled into aluminum to form an alloy of aluminum, the magnesium atoms act as “speed bumps.” When outside forces try to bend aluminum by forcing rows of aluminum atoms to roll over each other, the magnesium atoms stand in the way.
When it burns, magnesium gives off a bright white light, ideal for fireworks, flares, and special effects like lightning







Did you know that without magnesium, we’d have no food? That’s because at the center of every molecule of chlorophyll is a magnesium atom, and without that magnesium atom, chlorophyll would have no way to capture the energy in sunlight and turn it into chemical energy.
Besides plants, all animals, including humans, depend on magnesium for protein and DNA synthesis, muscle contraction, nerve function, regular heart beats, and many other internal functions.
Magnesium’s most common industrial use is to strengthen aluminum. When atoms of magnesium are sprinkled into aluminum to form an alloy of aluminum, the magnesium atoms act as “speed bumps.” When outside forces try to bend aluminum by forcing rows of aluminum atoms to roll over each other, the magnesium atoms stand in the way.
When it burns, magnesium gives off a bright white light, ideal for fireworks, flares, and special effects like lightning







Did you know that without magnesium, we’d have no food? That’s because at the center of every molecule of chlorophyll is a magnesium atom, and without that magnesium atom, chlorophyll would have no way to capture the energy in sunlight and turn it into chemical energy.
Besides plants, all animals, including humans, depend on magnesium for protein and DNA synthesis, muscle contraction, nerve function, regular heart beats, and many other internal functions.
Magnesium’s most common industrial use is to strengthen aluminum. When atoms of magnesium are sprinkled into aluminum to form an alloy of aluminum, the magnesium atoms act as “speed bumps.” When outside forces try to bend aluminum by forcing rows of aluminum atoms to roll over each other, the magnesium atoms stand in the way.
When it burns, magnesium gives off a bright white light, ideal for fireworks, flares, and special effects like lightning







Did you know that without magnesium, we’d have no food? That’s because at the center of every molecule of chlorophyll is a magnesium atom, and without that magnesium atom, chlorophyll would have no way to capture the energy in sunlight and turn it into chemical energy.
Besides plants, all animals, including humans, depend on magnesium for protein and DNA synthesis, muscle contraction, nerve function, regular heart beats, and many other internal functions.
Magnesium’s most common industrial use is to strengthen aluminum. When atoms of magnesium are sprinkled into aluminum to form an alloy of aluminum, the magnesium atoms act as “speed bumps.” When outside forces try to bend aluminum by forcing rows of aluminum atoms to roll over each other, the magnesium atoms stand in the way.
When it burns, magnesium gives off a bright white light, ideal for fireworks, flares, and special effects like lightning

Nickel is a transition metal that is incredibly resistant to oxidation and corrosion. Nickel can be mixed in with other metals to make strong corrosion-resistant alloys like stainless steel. The airplane and aerospace industries use nickel to make strong aluminum alloys. Nickel’s heat resistance produces alloys used in toasters and ovens. And don’t forget the nickel-copper alloy that makes up nickel coins! Nickel, like chromium, can also be plated onto other metals to produce a less shiny coat than chromium.
Nickel is also one of three metals that’s permanently magnetic, iron and cobalt being the other two, hence its use in rechargeable batteries.
Nickel and iron are often found together, especially in meteorites. One particularly large such meteorite crashed into Canada and around 1900, the English chemist Ludwig Mond discovered a way to extract the nickel. Mond found that by passing carbon monoxide gas though the mixture of iron and nickel to form nickel carbonyl, he could then gently heat nickel carbonyl into a gaseous vapor, which readily decomposed back into nickel and carbon monoxide. Great care must be taken handling nickel carbonyl, because once inhaled, both the carbon monoxide and the nickel are highly toxic and often fatal.