Element: Arsenic essay written as auto-biography. Simple.

My name is Arsenic. I have 33 protons; you can see me on the right side of the periodic table of the elements. In the year 1250 I was discovered by Albertus Magna. I am a metalloid which means that I am a semiconductor. This means that I can carry an electrical current by electron propagation or hole propagation. I can be yellow grey or black. I am also evenly distributed throughout Canada and I come from …

…two ways of separating me from the soil that I live in. My boiling point occurs before my melting point because of the fact that I have to be under large amounts of pressure to actually form a liquid. This is because under heat I turn directly to a gas. When the gas is under pressure it turns into a liquid. Accounting for this pressure my boiling point actually does occur before my melting point.