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Facts About Aluminium and Copper


Facts About Copper and Aluminium


Facts

Interesting Facts
  • Aluminum’s abundance percentage is more as it is found in more than 260 minerals.
  • Pure Aluminum always reacts with oxygen rapidly.
  • It is a good conductor of heat and electricity and used in transmission lines.
  
  • Copper rarely found in its pure form in nature.
  • Copper Sulfate is mostly used in agricultural poison and as an algicide in water purification system.
  

Sources
By Electrolysis Process, Earth's crust, Mining   
Found in Minerals   

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Hans Christian Oersted   
Unknown   

Discovery
In 1825   
In Middle East (9000 BCE)   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
5 * 10-3 %   
5
6 * 10-6 %   
12

Abundance In Sun
~0.006 %   
5
~0.00007 %   
12

Abundance In Meteorites
0.91 %   
5
0.01 %   
13

Abundance In Earth's Crust
8.10 %   
1
0.01 %   
17

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
6
0.00 %   
8

Abundance In Humans
0.00 %   
10
0.00 %   
9

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