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Facts About Aluminium and Curium


Facts About Curium 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.
  
  • Curium metal does not occur free in nature.
  • Curium metal is a synthetically produced metal.
  

Sources
By Electrolysis Process, Earth's crust, Mining   
Bombarding Plutonium with Helium Ions   

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Hans Christian Oersted   
Glenn T. Seaborg, Ralph A. James, Albert Ghiorso   

Discovery
In 1825   
In 1944   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
5 * 10-3 %   
5
Not Available   

Abundance In Sun
~0.006 %   
5
~-9999 %   

Abundance In Meteorites
0.91 %   
5
Not Available   

Abundance In Earth's Crust
8.10 %   
1
Not Available   

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
6
Not Available   

Abundance In Humans
0.00 %   
10
Not Available   

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