Lancaster architect C. Emlen Urban was a proponent of wrought iron being used as an “art form,” and used it on his public and private buildings. Decorative uses of wrought iron include hand-wrought ...

Timothy Godbold’s design of an apartment for a family of four in the Cast Iron House in Tribeca mixes industrial charm with modern elegance. Alabaster Egyptian pots in the shelving unit, Alberese sofa ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Copper smelters from 3,000 years ago may have experimented with materials just enough to launch the Iron Age. The Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age ...

Iron is an essential trace metal for nearly all microorganisms. Microorganisms devote substantial metabolic resources to obtaining adequate iron under various environmental conditions. Systemic iron ...

PRECIOUS METALS currently are the basis of catalysts that are well understood by chemists and widely used in labs, industrial processes, and automobile catalytic converters. But the metals—such as ...