Home

Transition Metals + -

Actinide Metals + -

Lanthanide Metals + -

Post-Transition Metals + -

Alkaline Earth Metals + -

Compare Metals


Facts About Copper and Molybdenum


Facts About Molybdenum 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.
  
  • Molybdenum is highly reactive metal, hence not found free in nature .
  • Till 18th century Molybdenum element were often mistaken as a carbon or Lead.
  

Sources
Found in Minerals   
Found in Minerals, Mining, Ores of Minerals   

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Unknown   
Carl Wilhelm Scheele   

Discovery
In Middle East (9000 BCE)   
In 1778   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
6 * 10-6 %   
12
5 * 10-7 %   
19

Abundance In Sun
~0.00007 %   
12
~0.0000009 %   
19

Abundance In Meteorites
0.01 %   
13
0.00 %   
24

Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.01 %   
17
0.00 %   
39

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
8
0.00 %   
9

Abundance In Humans
0.00 %   
9
0.00 %   
14

Uses >>
<< Periodic Table

Compare Transition Metals

Transition Metals

Transition Metals

» More Transition Metals

Compare Transition Metals

» More Compare Transition Metals