Facts About Hafnium and Indium
Interesting Facts
- Hafnium metal is highly reactive, hence not found free in nature.
- Hafnium metal as predicated after Mendeleev finished his periodic table.
- Luster of Indium is bright in nature.
- Reich and richer were looking for thallium in zinc metal and they discovered Indium metal.
Sources
By-product Zirconium Refining
Mining, Ores of metals
Who Discovered
Dirk Coster and George de Hevesy
Ferdinand Reich and Hieronymous Theodor Richter
Discovery
In 1922
In 1863
Abundance In Earth's Crust