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Fe

Iron

Z 
26
Mass 
55.845
Lifeforce 
Earth
In the body 
brain, heart, lungs, liver

The boundary of stars — the heaviest element stellar fusion still produces at a profit. Beyond iron, only supernovae forge. Iron is in your blood, in Earth's core, in the rust of dying stars.

A terraced slope with laid stone foundations and visible roots; a figure sets a stone in place.
Plate · Earth Earth never hurries — it holds, stone by stone, whatever is meant to last.

The endpoint of stellar fusion. When a star’s core becomes iron, fusion ceases and the star collapses — and explodes, scattering iron across the galaxy.

Lab note · 4 grams in your body, half of it in hemoglobin. Hemoglobin carries oxygen because iron grabs it. Every red blood cell holds 280 million iron atoms.