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An element dissolved in carbon disulfide is taken into a medicine dropper and used to write on a piece of filter paper. As the solvent, carbon disulfide, evaporates away, the element begins to react with oxygen from the air in a spontaneous, exothermic combustion reaction. What is this element?

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