metallic elements Quotes

The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

The proof of gold is fire.

Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing

I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

Gold and silver and sunshine is rising up.