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Facts About Lead and Aluminium


Facts About Aluminium and Lead


Facts

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • Aluminum’s abundance percentage is more as it is found in more than 260 minerals.
  • Pure Aluminum always reacts with oxygen rapidly.
  • It is a good conductor of heat and electricity and used in transmission lines.
  

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

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Unknown   
Hans Christian Oersted   

Discovery
In Middle Easterns (7000 BCE)   
In 1825   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
1 * 10-6 %   
16
5 * 10-3 %   
5

Abundance In Sun
~0.000001 %   
18
~0.006 %   
5

Abundance In Meteorites
0.00 %   
23
0.91 %   
5

Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.00 %   
26
8.10 %   
1

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
22
0.00 %   
6

Abundance In Humans
0.00 %   
8
0.00 %   
10

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