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Facts About Hafnium and Samarium


Facts About Samarium 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.
  
  • Samarium metals helps stimulating body metabolism.
  • Samarium metals was 1st observed by Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac in Dydimia in 1853.
  

Sources
By-product Zirconium Refining   
Found in Minerals, Mining, Ores of Minerals   

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Dirk Coster and George de Hevesy   
Lecoq de Boisbaudran   

Discovery
In 1922   
In 1879   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
7 * 10-8 %   
25
5 * 10-7 %   
19

Abundance In Sun
~0.0000001 %   
26
~0.0000001 %   
26

Abundance In Meteorites
0.00 %   
37
0.00 %   
37

Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.00 %   
31
0.00 %   
29

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
27
0.00 %   
40

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