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Facts About Copper and Rubidium


Facts About Rubidium 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.
  
  • Rubidium metal is 16th most common element found in the earth crust.
  • Rubidium metal also found in minerals as well as seawater.
  

Sources
Found in Minerals   
Obtained from Lithium Production.   

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Unknown   
Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff   

Discovery
In Middle East (9000 BCE)   
In 1861   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
6 * 10-6 %   
12
1 * 10-6 %   
16

Abundance In Sun
~0.00007 %   
12
~0.000003 %   
17

Abundance In Meteorites
0.01 %   
13
0.00 %   
19

Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.01 %   
17
0.01 %   
18

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
8
0.00 %   
7

Abundance In Humans
0.00 %   
9
0.00 %   
7

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