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Facts About Hafnium and Copper


Facts About Copper and Hafnium


Facts

Interesting Facts
  • Hafnium metal is highly reactive, hence not found free in nature.
  • Hafnium metal as predicated after Mendeleev finished his periodic table.
  
  • 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.
  

Sources
By-product Zirconium Refining   
Found in Minerals   

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Dirk Coster and George de Hevesy   
Unknown   

Discovery
In 1922   
In Middle East (9000 BCE)   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
7 * 10-8 %   
25
6 * 10-6 %   
12

Abundance In Sun
~0.0000001 %   
26
~0.00007 %   
12

Abundance In Meteorites
0.00 %   
37
0.01 %   
13

Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.00 %   
31
0.01 %   
17

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
27
0.00 %   
8

Abundance In Humans
Not Available   
0.00 %   
9

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