Answer:
The faster you run the harder it is to catch me
I cannot be burned in fire or drowned in water
I can speak with my hard metal tongue. But I cannot breathe for I have no lung
What loses its head in the morning but gets it back at night?
Alone I am 24th with a friend I am 20. Another friend and I am unclean.
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.