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  • a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element
  • is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts
  • used in construction and tools and armament
  • plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood a golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head implement used to brand live stock home appliance consisting of a flat metal base that is heated and used to smooth cloth press and smooth with a heated iron
  • "press your shirts"
  • "she stood there ironing" extremely robust
  • "an iron constitution"

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    Notable characteristics - Iron is the most abundant metal on Earth, and is believed to be the tenth most abundant chemical elementelement in the universe. Iron is also the most abundant (by mass, 34.6%) element making up the Earth; the concentration of iron in the various layers of the Earth ranges from high at the inner core to about 5% in the outer crust; it is possible the Earth's inner core consists of a single iron crystal although it is more likely to be a mixture of iron and nickel; the large amount of iron in the Earth is thought to contribute to its Earth's magnetic fieldmagnetic field. Iron is a metal extracted from iron ore, and is hardly ever found in the free (elemental) state. In order to obtain elemental iron, the impurities must be removed by chemical reduction (chemistry)reduction. Iron is used in the production of steel, which is not an element but an alloy, a solution of different metals (and some non-metals, particularly carbon).Nuclei of iron have some of the highest binding energies per nucleon, superseded only by the nickel isotope 62Ni. The universally most abundant of the highly stable nucleides is, however, 56Fe. This is formed by nuclear fusion in the stars. Although a further tiny energy gain could be extracted by synthesizing 62Ni, conditions in stars are not right for this process to be favoured. When a very large star contracts at the end of its life, internal pressure and temperature rise, allowing the star to produce progressively heavier elements, despite these being less stable than the elements around mass number 60 (the "iron group"). This leads to a supernova.Some cosmological models with an open universe predict that there will be a phase where as a result of slow fusion and fission reactions, everything will become iron.

    Applications - Iron is the most used of all the metals, comprising 95 percent of all the metal tonnage produced worldwide. Its combination of low cost and high strength make it indispensable, especially in applications like automobiles, the hull (ship)hulls of large ships, and structural components for buildings. Steel is the best known alloy of iron, and some of the forms that iron takes include:
  • Pig iron has 4% – 5% carbon and contains varying amounts of contaminants such as sulfur, silicon and phosphorus. Its only significance is that of an intermediate step on the way from iron ore to cast iron and steel.
  • Cast iron contains 2% – 4.0% carbon , 1% – 6% silicon , and small amounts of manganese. Contaminants present in pig iron that negatively affect the material properties, such as sulfur and phosphorus, have been reduced to an acceptable level. It has a melting point in the range of 1420–1470 K, which is lower than either of its two main components, and makes it the first product to be melted when carbon and iron are heated together. Its mechanical properties vary greatly, dependant upon the form carbon takes in the alloy. 'White' cast irons contain their carbon in the form of cementite, or iron carbide. This hard, brittle compound dominates the mechanical properties of white cast irons, rendering them hard, but unresistant to shock. The broken surface of a white cast iron is full of fine facets of the broken carbide, a very pale, silvery, shiny material, hence the appellation. In 'grey' cast iron, the carbon exists free as fine flakes of graphite , and also, renders the material brittle due to the stress-raising nature of the sharp edged flakes of graphite. A newer variant of grey iron, referred to as 'ductile iron' is specially treated with trace amounts of magnesium to alter the shape of graphite to sheroids, or nodules, vastly increasing the toughness and strength of the material.
  • Carbon steel contains between 0.5% and 1.5% carbon, with small amounts of manganese, sulfur, phosphorus, and silicon.
  • Wrought iron contains less than 0.2% carbon. It is a tough, malleable product, not as fusible as pig iron. It has a very small amount of carbon, a few tenths of a percent. If honed to an edge, it loses it quickly. Wrought iron is characterised, especially in old samples, by the presence of fine 'stringers' or filaments of slag entrapped in the metal.
  • Alloy steels contain varying amounts of carbon as well as other metals, such as chromium, vanadium, molybdenum, nickel, tungsten, etc. They are used for structural purposes, as their alloy content raises their cost and necessitates justification of their use. Recent developments in ferrous metallurgy have produced a growing range of microalloyed steels, also termed 'HSLA' or high-strength, low alloy steels, containing tiny additions to produce high strengths and often spectacular toughness at minimal cost.
  • Iron (III) oxides are used in the production of magnetic storage in computers. They are often mixed with other compounds, and retain their magnetic properties in solution.

    History - The first signs of use of iron come from the Sumerians and the Egyptians, where around 4000 BC, a few items, such as the tips of spears, daggers and ornaments, were being fashioned from iron recovered from meteorites. Because meteorites fall from the sky some linguists have conjectured that the English word ''iron'' (OE ''īsern''), which has cognates in many northern and western European languages, derives from the Etruscan ''aisar'' which means "the gods".By 3000 BC to 2000 BC, increasing numbers of smelted iron objects (distinguishable from meteoric iron by the lack of nickel in the product) appear in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Egypt. However, their use appears to be ceremonial, and iron was an expensive metal, more expensive than gold. In the Iliad, weaponry is mostly bronze, but iron ingots are used for trade. Some resources (see the reference ''What Caused the Iron Age?'' below) suggest that iron was being created then as a by-product of copper refining, as sponge iron, and was not reproducible by the metallurgy of the time. By 1600 BC to 1200 BC, iron was used increasingly in the Middle East, but did not supplant the dominant use of bronze. In the period from the 12th to 10th century BC, there was a rapid transition in the Middle East from bronze to iron tools and weapons. The critical factor in this transition does not appear to be the sudden onset of a superior ironworking technology, but instead the disruption of the supply of tin. This period of transition, which occurred at different times in different parts of the world, is the ushering in of an age of civilization called the Iron Age.Concurrent with the transition from bronze to iron was the discovery of ''carburization'', which was the process of adding carbon to the irons of the time. Iron was recovered as sponge iron, a mix of iron and slag with some carbon and/or carbide, which was then repeatedly hammered and folded over to free the mass of slag and oxidise out carbon content, so creating the product wrought iron. Wrought iron was very low in carbon content and was not easily hardened by quenching. The people of the Middle East found that a much harder product could be created by the long term heating of a wrought iron object in a bed of charcoal, which was then quenched in water or oil. The resulting product, which had a surface of steel, was harder and less brittle than the bronze it began to replace.In China the first irons used were also meteoric iron, with archeological evidence for items made of wrought iron appearing in the northwest, near Xinjiang, in the 8th century BC. These items were made of wrought iron, created by the same processes used in the Middle East and Europe, and were thought to be imported by non-Chinese people.In the later years of the Zhou Dynasty (ca 550 BC), a new iron manufacturing capability began because of a highly developed kiln technology. Producing blast furnaceblast furnaces capable of temperatures exceeding 1300 K, the Chinese developed the manufacture of cast ironcast, or pig iron.Iron was used in India as early as 250 BCE. The famous Pillars of AshokaAshoka Pillar near Delhi is made of very pure iron (98%) and has not rusted or eroded till this day. If iron ores are heated with carbon to 1420–1470 K, a molten liquid is formed, an alloy of about 96.5% iron and 3.5% carbon. This product is strong, can be cast into intricate shapes, but is too brittle to be worked, unless the product is ''decarburized'' to remove most of the carbon. The vast majority of Chinese iron manufacture, from the Zhou dynasty onward, was of cast iron. Iron, however, remained a pedestrian product, used by farmers for hundreds of years, and did not really affect the nobility of China until the Qin dynasty (ca 221 BC).Cast iron development lagged in Europe, as the smelters could only achieve temperatures of about 1000 K. Through a good portion of the Middle Ages, in Western Europe, iron was still being made by the working of sponge iron into wrought iron. Some of the earliest casting of iron in Europe occurred in Sweden, in two sites, Lapphyttan and Vinarhyttan, between 1150 and 1350 AD. There are suggestions by scholars that the practice may have followed the Mongols across Russia to these sites, but there is no clear proof of this hypothesis. In any event, by the late fourteenth century, a market for cast iron goods began to form, as a demand developed for cast iron cannonballs.Early iron smelting (as the process is called) used charcoal as both the heat source and the reducing agent. In 18th century England, wood supplies ran down and coke (fuel)coke, a fossil fuel, was used as an alternative. This innovation by Abraham Darby IAbraham Darby supplied the energy for the Industrial Revolution.

    Occurrence - Iron is one of the more common elements on Earth, making up about 5% of the Earth's crust. Most of this iron is found in various iron oxides, such as the minerals hematite, magnetite, and taconite. The earth's core is believed to consist largely of a metallic iron-nickel alloy. About 5% of the meteorites similarly consist of iron-nickel alloy. Although rare, these are the major form of natural metallic iron on the earth's surface.

    Extraction from ore - Industrially, iron is extracted from its ores, principally hematite (nominally !Fe2O< ;sub>3)? and magnetite !(Fe3O&l t;sub>4)? by a carbothermic reaction (reduction with carbon) in a blast furnace at temperatures of about 2000°C. In a blast furnace, iron ore, carbon in the form of coke (fuel)coke, and a ''flux'' such as limestone are fed into the top of the furnace, while a blast of heated air is forced into the furnace at the bottom.In the furnace, the coke (fuel)coke reacts with oxygen in the air blast to produce carbon monoxide::6 carbonC + 3 oxygenO2 → 6 carbon monoxideCOThe carbon monoxide reduces the iron ore (in the chemical equation below, hematite) to molten iron, becoming carbon dioxide in the process::6 carbon monoxideCO + 2 hematite!Fe2O< ;sub>3? → 4 Fe + 6 carbon dioxideCO2The flux is present to melt impurities in the ore, principally silicon dioxide sand and other silicates. Common fluxes include limestone (principally calcium carbonate) and dolomite (magnesium carbonate). Other fluxes may be used depending on the impurities that need to be removed from the ore. In the heat of the furnace the limestone flux decomposes to calcium oxide (quicklime)::calcium carbonateCaCO3 → calcium oxideCaO + carbon dioxideCO2Then calcium oxide combines then with silicon dioxide to form a ''slag''.:calcium oxideCaO + silicon dioxideSiO2 → wollastonite!CaSiO3T he? slag melts in the heat of the furnace, which silicon dioxide would not have. In the bottom of the furnace, the molten slag floats on top of the more dense liquid iron, and spouts in the side of the furnace may be opened to drain off either the iron or the slag. The iron, once cooled, is called pig iron, while the slag can be used as a material in road construction or to improve mineral-poor soils for agriculture.Approximately 1100Mt (million tons) of iron ore was produced in the worldin 2000, with a gross market value of approximately 25 billion US dollars. While ore production occurs in 48 countries, the five largest producers were China, Brazil, Australia, Russia and India, accounting for 70% of world iron ore production. The 1100Mt of iron ore was used to produce approximately 572Mt of pig iron.

    Compounds - pellets will be used in steel production.]]Common oxidation states of iron include:
  • the Iron(-II) state, Fe2- (e.g. !Fe(CO)4 2-,Fe(C O)2(NO) 2.
  • ? the Iron(0) state, !Fe(CO)5 ,? !Fe(PF3) 5.
  • ? the Iron(I) state, sub>NO!2+.
  • the Iron(II) state, Fe2+, previously ''ferrous'' is very common.
  • the Iron(III) state, Fe3+, previously ''ferric'', is also very common, for example in rust.
  • the Iron(IV) state, Fe4+, previously ''ferryl'', stabilized in some enzymes (e.g. peroxidaseperoxidases).
  • the Iron(VI) state, Fe6+ is also known, if rare, in potassium ferrate.Iron carbide Fe3C is known as cementite.

    Biological role - Iron is essential to all organisms, except for a few bacteriumbacteria. It is mostly stably incorporated in the inside of metalloproteins, because in exposed or in free form it causes production of free radicals that are generally toxic to cells. To say that iron is free doesn't mean that it is free floating in the bodily fluids. Iron binds avidly to virtually all biomolecules so it will adhere nonspecifically to cell membranes, nucleic acids, proteins etc.Many animals incorporate iron into the heme complex, an essential component of cytochromes, which are proteins involved in redox reactions (including but not limited to respiration), and of oxygen carrying proteins hemoglobin and myoglobin. Inorganic iron involved in redox reactions is also found in the iron-sulfur clusters of many enzymes, such as nitrogenase (involved in the synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen) and hydrogenase. A class of non-heme iron proteins is responsible for a wide range of functions within several life forms, such as enzymes methane monooxygenase (oxidizes methane to methanol), ribonucleotide reductase (reduces ribose to deoxyribose; DNA replicationDNA biosynthesis), hemerythrins (oxygen transport and fixation in marine biology#other sea lifemarine invertebrates) and purple acid phosphatase (hydrolysis of phosphate esters). When the body is fighting a bacterial infection, the body sequesters iron in the transporter protein transferrin so it cannot be used by bacteria.Iron distribution is heavily regulated in mammals, partly as a defense against bacterial infection. The iron absorbed from the duodenum binds to transferrin, and is carried by blood to different cell (biology)cells. There it gets by an as yet unknown mechanism incorporated into target proteins. plosbiology.org.Good sources of dietary iron include meat, fish, poultry, lentils, beans, leaf vegetables, tofu, chickpeas, black-eyed pea, strawberrystrawberries and farina (food)farina.Iron provided by dietary supplements is often found as Ferrous fumarateIron (II) fumarate. The Recommended Dietary AllowanceRDA for iron varies considerably based on the age, gender, and source of dietary iron (heme-based iron has higher bioavailability)iom.edu. Also note the section below on #Precautionsprecautions.

    Isotopes - Naturally occurring iron consists of four isotopes: 5.845% of radioactive 54Fe (half-life: >3.1E22 years), 91.754% of stable 56Fe, 2.119% of stable 57Fe and 0.282% of stable !58Fe.&l t;sup>60Fe? is an extinct radionuclide of long half-life (1.5 million years). Much of the past work on measuring the isotopic composition of Fe has centered on determining 60Fe variations due to processes accompanying nucleosynthesis (i.e., meteorite studies) and ore formation.The isotope 56Fe is of particular interest to nuclear scientists. A common misconception is that this isotope represents the most stable nucleus possible, and that it thus would be impossible to perform fission or fusion on 56Fe and still liberate energy. This is not true, as both 62Ni and 58Fe are more stable.In phases of the meteorites ''Semarkona'' and ''Chervony Kut'' a correlation between the concentration of !60Nicke lNi, the daughter product of 60Fe, and the abundance of the stable iron isotopes could be found which is evidence for the existence of 60Fe at time formation of solar system. Possibly the energy released by the decay of 60Fe contributed, together with the energy released by decay of the radionuclide !26Alumi niumAl, to the remelting and planetary differentiationdifferentiation of asteroids after their formation 4.6 billion years ago. The abundance of !60nicke lNi present in extraterrestrial material may also provide further insight into the origin of the solar system and its early history.Of the stable isotopes, only 57Fe has a nuclear spin_(physics)spin (−1/2). For this reason, 57Fe has application as a spin isotope in chemistry and biochemistry.

    Precautions - Excessive dietary iron is toxic, because excess ferrous iron reacts with peroxides in the body, producing free radicals.When iron is in normal quantity, the body's own antioxidant mechanisms can control this process. In excess, uncontrollable quantities of free radicals are produced.The lethal dose of iron in a two-year-old is about three grams of iron. One gram can induce severe poisoning. There are reported cases of children being poisoned by consuming between 10 and 50 tablets of ferrous sulfate over a period of several hours. Over consumption of iron is the single highest cause of death in children by unintentional ingestion of pharmaceuticals. The Dietary Reference IntakeDRI lists the Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) for adults as 45 milligrammg/day. For children under fourteen years old the UL is 40 mg/day.If iron intake is excessive a number of iron overload disorders can result, such as hemochromatosis. For this reason, people should not take iron supplements unless they suffer from iron deficiency (medicine)iron deficiency and have consulted a doctor. Blood donationBlood donors are at special risk of low iron levels and are often recommended to supplement their iron intake.

    References -
  • periodic.lanl.gov - Los Alamos National Laboratory – Iron

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