Facts About Iron and Hafnium
Facts
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Hafnium metal is highly reactive, hence not found free in nature.
- Hafnium metal as predicated after Mendeleev finished his periodic table.
Sources
Earth's crust, Found in Minerals
By-product Zirconium Refining
History
Who Discovered
Unknown
Dirk Coster and George de Hevesy
Discovery
Before 5000 BC
In 1922
Abundance
Abundance In Universe
1.1 * 10-1 %
1
7 * 10-8 %
25
Abundance In Sun
~0.1 %
1
~0.0000001 %
26
Abundance In Meteorites
22.00 %
1
0.00 %
37
Abundance In Earth's Crust
6.30 %
2
0.00 %
31
Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %
12
0.00 %
27
Abundance In Humans
0.01 %
5
Not Available
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