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Facts About Copper and Rhodium


Facts About Rhodium 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.
  
  • Rhodium is the rarest element out of all non-radioactive metals on the earth .
  • Rhodium is one of the most durable and hard metal, which also have high reflectance.
  

Sources
Found in Minerals   
Earth's crust, Found As a By-product, Found in Minerals, Mining   

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Unknown   
William Hyde Wollaston   

Discovery
In Middle East (9000 BCE)   
In 1804   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
6 * 10-6 %   
12
6 * 10-8 %   
26

Abundance In Sun
~0.00007 %   
12
~0.0000002 %   
25

Abundance In Meteorites
0.01 %   
13
0.00 %   
36

Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.01 %   
17
0.00 %   
99+

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
8
Not Available   

Abundance In Humans
0.00 %   
9
Not Available   

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