Metals: From Stars to Cells 

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Tracing metals back to their ultimate origins, the processes of stellar nucleosynthesis come into focus. Source
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In Praise of Copper, a Gift from Nature

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If the conductivity of copper were ten times less, wires would have to be ten times the cross-sectional area to provide the same conductivity. Source
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