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Facts About Iron and Molybdenum


Facts About Molybdenum 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.
  
  • Molybdenum is highly reactive metal, hence not found free in nature .
  • Till 18th century Molybdenum element were often mistaken as a carbon or Lead.
  

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

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Unknown   
Carl Wilhelm Scheele   

Discovery
Before 5000 BC   
In 1778   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
1.1 * 10-1 %   
1
5 * 10-7 %   
19

Abundance In Sun
~0.1 %   
1
~0.0000009 %   
19

Abundance In Meteorites
22.00 %   
1
0.00 %   
24

Abundance In Earth's Crust
6.30 %   
2
0.00 %   
39

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
12
0.00 %   
9

Abundance In Humans
0.01 %   
5
0.00 %   
14

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