It's got its uses,
but it sounds like "boring". And it's brown. It's a proper Open Universities element.
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It's got the highest melting point of any pure element, if that kind of thing rocks your socks.
And there's a small possibility that it, like its neighour carbon, may be the fundamental building block of life elsewhere in the universe.
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