Ni · Z = 28
Nickel
Moon · Metabolic catalyst
Prime-sum enzyme core
Nickel bundles the first five primes (2 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 11). It sits as a transition-metal catalyst in ancient enzymes that jump-start metabolism.
Section III.1
Biogenesis
The matrix as chemical hardware — valence, catalysis, membranes, and the palindromic copy of genetic strands.