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Facts About Copper and Iron


Facts About Iron and Copper


Facts

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • Iron is not always magnetic in nature, its allotrope are ferromagnetic and the B allotrope is nonmagnetic.
  • The blood consists Iron in hemoglobin molecules to transfer Oxygen in the body.
  

Sources
Found in Minerals   
Earth's crust, Found in Minerals   

History
  
  

Discovery
In Middle East (9000 BCE)   
Before 5000 BC   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
6 * 10-6 %   
12
1.1 * 10-1 %   
1

Abundance In Sun
~0.00007 %   
12
~0.1 %   
1

Abundance In Meteorites
0.01 %   
13
22.00 %   
1

Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.01 %   
17
6.30 %   
2

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
8
0.00 %   
12

Abundance In Humans
0.00 %   
9
0.01 %   
5

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