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Facts About Iron and Lead


Facts About Lead and Iron


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.
  
  • Galena mineral contains almost 87% of Lead metal in it, Galena is sulfide mineral.
  • The best available source of Lead metal today is by recycling automobile batteries.
  

Sources
Earth's crust, Found in Minerals   
Earth's crust, Found in Minerals, Mining, Ores of metals, Ores of Minerals   

History
  
  

Discovery
Before 5000 BC   
In Middle Easterns (7000 BCE)   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
1.1 * 10-1 %   
1
1 * 10-6 %   
16

Abundance In Sun
~0.1 %   
1
~0.000001 %   
18

Abundance In Meteorites
22.00 %   
1
0.00 %   
23

Abundance In Earth's Crust
6.30 %   
2
0.00 %   
26

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
12
0.00 %   
22

Abundance In Humans
0.01 %   
5
0.00 %   
8

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