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Facts About Lead and Molybdenum


Facts About Molybdenum 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.
  
  • 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, Mining, Ores of metals, Ores of Minerals   
Found in Minerals, Mining, Ores of Minerals   

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Unknown   
Carl Wilhelm Scheele   

Discovery
In Middle Easterns (7000 BCE)   
In 1778   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
1 * 10-6 %   
16
5 * 10-7 %   
19

Abundance In Sun
~0.000001 %   
18
~0.0000009 %   
19

Abundance In Meteorites
0.00 %   
23
0.00 %   
24

Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.00 %   
26
0.00 %   
39

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
22
0.00 %   
9

Abundance In Humans
0.00 %   
8
0.00 %   
14

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