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Facts About Copper and Niobium


Facts About Niobium 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.
  
  • Niobium metal was used to get called Columbium in past.
  • Niobium metal found freely in nature (abundance).
  

Sources
Found in Minerals   
By-product of Tin Extraction, Found in Minerals, Mining, Ores of Minerals   

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Unknown   
Charles Hatchett   

Discovery
In Middle East (9000 BCE)   
In 1801   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
6 * 10-6 %   
12
2 * 10-7 %   
22

Abundance In Sun
~0.00007 %   
12
~0.0000004 %   
23

Abundance In Meteorites
0.01 %   
13
0.00 %   
35

Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.01 %   
17
0.00 %   
25

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
8
0.00 %   
34

Abundance In Humans
0.00 %   
9
Not Available   

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