| | |   Atomium souvenir. The Atomium is a very, very strange building (if you can call it that) built for the World's Fair in Brussels, Belgium in 1958.  Visit their website to see a lot of pictures of this most peculiar construction.  For a while they were selling aluminum panels removed from the building during its renovation in 2005, but I couldn't get one of those, so I had to settle for this souvenir from the grand opening.  I have Atomium-related items listed under iron because it is said to have been based on the crystal structure of iron.
 Source: eBay seller tnp5659
 Contributor: Theodore Gray
 Acquired: 10 December, 2005
 Text Updated: 11 August, 2007
 Price: $40
 Size: 3"
 Purity: >90%
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