1 Facts
1.1 Interesting Facts
- Hafnium metal is highly reactive, hence not found free in nature.
- Hafnium metal as predicated after Mendeleev finished his periodic table.
- Aluminum’s abundance percentage is more as it is found in more than 260 minerals.
- Pure Aluminum always reacts with oxygen rapidly.
- It is a good conductor of heat and electricity and used in transmission lines.
1.2 Sources
By-product Zirconium Refining
By Electrolysis Process, Earth's crust, Mining
1.3 History
1.3.1 Who Discovered
Dirk Coster and George de Hevesy
Hans Christian Oersted
1.3.2 Discovery
1.4 Abundance
1.4.1 Abundance In Universe
7 * 10-8 %5 * 10-3 %
5E-09
0.11
1.4.2 Abundance In Sun
~0.0000001 %~0.006 %
1E-08
0.1
1.4.3 Abundance In Meteorites
1.4.4 Abundance In Earth's Crust
1.4.5 Abundance In Oceans
1.4.6 Abundance In Humans