Facts About Lead and Hafnium
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.
- 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, Mining, Ores of metals, Ores of Minerals
By-product Zirconium Refining
Who Discovered
Unknown
Dirk Coster and George de Hevesy
Discovery
In Middle Easterns (7000 BCE)
In 1922
Abundance In Earth's Crust
Abundance In Humans
Not Available