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Facts About Gold and Iron


Facts About Iron and Gold


Facts

Interesting Facts
  • It is found in copper ores and from the crust of the earth.
  • It is the most malleable and ductile metal.
  • Gold alloys are used in Dentistry as fillings, crowning, clips, etc. It is also used as an artificial limb joints.
  
  • 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
Earth's crust, Mining, Ores of metals   
Earth's crust, Found in Minerals   

History
  
  

Discovery
Before 6000 BCE   
Before 5000 BC   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
6 * 10-8 %   
26
1.1 * 10-1 %   
1

Abundance In Sun
~0.0000001 %   
26
~0.1 %   
1

Abundance In Meteorites
0.00 %   
99+
22.00 %   
1

Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.00 %   
99+
6.30 %   
2

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
21
0.00 %   
12

Abundance In Humans
0.00 %   
18
0.01 %   
5

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