Front Office (YoMo.nospam@erols.com) writes: I have been trying, as a way to learn some chemistry, to get iron out of the red clay here in Chevy Chase, Maryland. In the process, a 'mystery metal' has presented itself in the form of little beads that are deposited on a 10-gram batch iron oxide that I isolated from 140 grams of clay. I am trying to figure out what the