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Chromium

Z: 24
Mass: 51.996
Lifeforce: Earth
In the body: thyroid, liver

What flashes on an old car in the sun is also inside you: a few milligrams of the same element that gives stainless steel its shine, and your blood sugar its stability.

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.

Chromium. Element twenty-four. Gives stainless steel its shine. Plates the chrome of an old car. Stabilizes blood sugar in your body.

Lab note · ≈6 mg in the body; involved in glucose regulation.

Tool · Cosmic origin

Where your atoms come from

Cr · Supernova

Born in supernova explosions, the death of massive stars scattering their innards across the galaxy.

65 of the 118 elements share this origin.

Choose a stage: click, or arrow keys. · Cosmic nucleosynthesis · current standard model

Tool · Periodic table

Your place in the system

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