Facts About Aluminium and Hafnium
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.
- Hafnium metal is highly reactive, hence not found free in nature.
- Hafnium metal as predicated after Mendeleev finished his periodic table.
Sources
By Electrolysis Process, Earth's crust, Mining
By-product Zirconium Refining
Who Discovered
Hans Christian Oersted
Dirk Coster and George de Hevesy
Discovery
In 1825
In 1922
Abundance In Earth's Crust
Abundance In Humans
Not Available