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Facts About Barium and Lead


Facts About Lead and Barium


Facts

Interesting Facts
  • Barium oxidizes very easily in the air.
  • All toxic compounds of Barium can easily dissolve in water.
  • Barium carbonate is used to produce a Rat poison and its other compound Barium nitrate is used in fireworks to produce green color.
  
  • Galena mineral contains almost 87% of Lead metal in it, Galena is sulfide mineral.
  • The best available source of Lead metal today is by recycling automobile batteries.
  

Sources
Earth's crust, Found in Minerals, Mining, Ores of Minerals   
Earth's crust, Found in Minerals, Mining, Ores of metals, Ores of Minerals   

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Carl Wilhelm Scheele   
Unknown   

Discovery
In 1772   
In Middle Easterns (7000 BCE)   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
1 * 10-6 %   
16
1 * 10-6 %   
16

Abundance In Sun
~0.000001 %   
18
~0.000001 %   
18

Abundance In Meteorites
0.00 %   
20
0.00 %   
23

Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.03 %   
11
0.00 %   
26

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
8
0.00 %   
22

Abundance In Humans
0.00 %   
12
0.00 %   
8

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