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Chromium is a chemical element with symbol Cr and atomic number 24 . It is the first element in Group 6 . It is a steely - grey , lustrous , ___MASK59___ and brittle metal which takes a high polish , resists tarnishing , and has a high melting point . The name of the element is derived from the Greek word  , " chrma ", meaning color , because many of the compounds are intensely colored . Silicon is a chemical element with symbol Si and atomic number 14 . A ___MASK59___ and brittle crystalline solid with a blue - gray metallic luster , it is a tetravalent metalloid . It is a member of group 14 in the periodic table , along with carbon above it and germanium , tin , lead , and flerovium below . It is rather unreactive , though less so than germanium , and has great chemical affinity for oxygen ; as such , it was first prepared and characterized in pure form only in 1823 by Jöns Jakob Berzelius . Taiping Island , also known as ___MASK24___ Aba Island and by various other names , is the largest of the naturally occurring Spratly Islands in the South China Sea . The island is elliptical in shape being in length and in width , with an area of . It is part of the Tizard Bank ( Zheng He Reefs ;  ). The runway of the Taiping Island Airport is easily the most prominent feature on the island , running its entire length . Steelmaking is the process for producing steel from iron ore and scrap . In steelmaking , impurities such as nitrogen , silicon , phosphorus , sulfur and excess carbon are removed from the raw iron , and alloying elements such as manganese , nickel , chromium and vanadium are added to produce different grades of steel . Limiting dissolved gases such as nitrogen and oxygen , and entrained impurities ( termed " inclusions ") in the steel is also important to ensure the quality of the products cast from the liquid steel . An alloy is a mixture of metals or a mixture of a metal and another element . Alloys are defined by a metallic bonding character . An alloy may be a solid solution of metal elements ( a single phase ) or a mixture of metallic phases ( two or more solutions ). Intermetallic compounds are alloys with a defined stoichiometry and crystal structure . Zintl phases are also sometimes considered alloys depending on bond types ( see also : ___MASK96___ Arkel - Ketelaar ___MASK49___ for information on classifying bonding in binary compounds ). ___MASK55___ (" Nippon " or " Nihon " ; formally "" or " Nihon - koku ", means " State of ___MASK55___ ") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern ___MASK33___ . Located in the Pacific Ocean , It is lying off the eastern coast of the ___MASK33___ Mainland ( east of China , Korea , Russia ) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest . Tang Eng Iron Works ( Chinese :  ; pinyin : Tángróngti Gngchng ) is a steelmaking company in ___MASK82___ . Its headquarters is in Siaogang District of Kaohsiung . Kaohsiung International Airport ( commonly ) , also known as Kaohsiung Siaogang Airport for the Siaogang District where it is located , is a medium - sized commercial airport in ___MASK43___ , Taiwan . Kaohsiung International is the third busiest Taiwanese airport , after Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport and Taipei Songshan Airport , in passenger movement . The United Nations ( UN ) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co - operation . A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations , the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict . At its founding , the UN had 51 member states ; there are now 193 . The ___MASK11___ is in Manhattan , ___MASK50___ City , and experiences extraterritoriality . Further main offices are situated in Geneva , Nairobi , and ___MASK75___ . The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states . Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security , promoting human rights , fostering social and economic development , protecting the environment , and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine , natural disaster , and armed conflict . ___MASK82___ , officially the Republic of China ( ROC ), is a state in East ___MASK33___ . Neighbors include China ( officially the People ' s Republic of China , abbreviated as PRC ) to the west , Japan to the northeast , and the ___MASK71___ to the south . ___MASK82___ is the most populous state that is not a member of the United Nations , and the one with the largest economy . The ___MASK71___ , officially the Republic of the ___MASK71___ , is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean . It consists of about 7 , 641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south : Luzon , Visayas , and Mindanao . The capital city of the ___MASK71___ is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City , both part of Metro Manila . Bounded by the South China Sea on the west , the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest , the ___MASK71___ shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north , Vietnam to the west , Palau to the east and Malaysia and Indonesia to the south . ___MASK43___ ( old names : Takao , Takow , Takau ) is a special municipality in Taiwan . Located in southern - western Taiwan and facing the Taiwan Strait , it is by area the largest municipality , at , stretches from Mt . Jade to Taiping Island , and second most populous ( by city proper ) with a population of approximately 2 . 77 million . Since its start in the 17th century , Kaohsiung has grown from a small trading village , into the political , economic , transportation , manufacturing , refining , shipbuilding , and industrial center of southern Taiwan . It is a global city with sufficiency as categorized by Globalization and World Cities Research Network in 2012 . The ___MASK82___ Strait , or Formosa Strait , is a wide strait separating the island of ___MASK82___ ( of the Republic of China ) from mainland China ( People ' s Republic of China ). The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to the East China Sea to the north . The narrowest part is wide . Xiaogang District is the southernmost district of ___MASK43___ in southern Taiwan . The second largest airport in Taiwan , Kaohsiung International Airport , is located here . Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28 . It is a silvery - white lustrous metal with a slight ___MASK89___ tinge . Nickel belongs to the transition metals and is hard and ductile . Pure nickel , powdered to maximize the reactive surface area , shows a significant chemical activity , but larger pieces are slow to react with air under standard conditions because an oxide layer forms on the surface and prevents further corrosion ( passivation ). Even so , pure native nickel is found in Earth ' s crust only in tiny amounts , usually in ultramafic rocks , and in the interiors of larger nickel  iron meteorites that were not exposed to oxygen when outside Earth ' s atmosphere . East ___MASK33___ is the eastern subregion of the Asian continent , which can be defined in either geographical or ethno - cultural terms . Geographically and geopolitically , it includes China , Hong Kong , and Macao ; Mongolia and Taiwan ; North and South Korea ; and Japan ; it covers about , or about 28 % of the Asian continent , about twice the area of Europe . A ___MASK56___ city , also called world city or sometimes alpha city or world center , is a city generally considered to be an important node in the ___MASK56___ economic system . The concept comes from geography and urban studies , and the idea that globalization can be understood as largely created , facilitated , and enacted in strategic geographic locales according to a hierarchy of importance to the operation of the ___MASK56___ system of finance and trade . Vanadium is a chemical element with symbol V and atomic number 23 . It is a ___MASK59___ , silvery grey , ductile , and malleable transition metal . The elemental metal is rarely found in nature , but once isolated artificially , the formation of an oxide layer ( passivation ) stabilizes the free metal somewhat against further oxidation . China , officially the People ' s Republic of China ( PRC ), is a unitary sovereign state in East ___MASK33___ . With a population of over 1 . 381 billion , it is the world ' s most populous country . The state is governed by the Communist Party of China , and its capital is Beijing . It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , five autonomous regions , four direct - controlled municipalities ( Beijing , Tianjin , Shanghai , and ___MASK1___ ), and two mostly self - governing special administrative regions ( Hong Kong and Macau ), and claims sovereignty over Taiwan . The country ' s major urban areas include Shanghai , Guangzhou , Beijing , ___MASK1___ , Shenzhen , Tianjin and Hong Kong . China is a great power and a major regional power within ___MASK33___ , and has been characterized as a potential superpower .