elements · 12 / 118 · All 118

Z 

12

Mass 

24.305

Lifeforce 

Fire

In the body 

brain, heart, bones, muscle, dna

There is a metal in every green leaf: magnesium captures sunlight there for every plant alive. The same metal burns blinding white, hot enough to consume itself — and you carry about 25 grams of it yourself, half in bone, half in cells.

Magnesium. Element twelve. Burns with a blinding white flame, hot enough to consume itself. In chlorophyll, it captures sunlight for every plant alive. The green of the world hides this metal.

Lab note · Atomic number 12; in the body ≈25 g — half in bone, half in cells.