{"id":2817,"date":"2026-05-03T16:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2817"},"modified":"2026-05-03T16:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:27:23","slug":"iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/iron\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Iron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iron is a ubiquitous, magnetic transition metal essential for structural materials and biological oxygen transport in hemoglobin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Iron<\/strong> | It forms multiple oxidation states Fe2+, Fe3+, is ductile in metallic form and readily corrodes to form oxides unless protected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Iron<\/strong> | Iron ores hematite, magnetite supply steel production, cast iron, tools, machinery and are foundational to modern infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Iron<\/strong> | Stable isotopes include Fe 54, Fe 56; iron is essential nutritionally but excess iron is toxic and industrial dusts require exposure controls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abundant transition metal central to construction, manufacturing and biology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5810,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions\/5810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}