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Facts About Zinc and Plutonium


Facts About Plutonium and Zinc


Facts

Interesting Facts
  • Zinc metal found (obtain) in many forms like granules, foil, dust and in a powder form.
  • The leading producers of Zinc metal are Australia, Canada, China, U.S.A and Peru.
  
  • Plutonium metal if obtain from ores of uranium metal.
  • Plutonium metal is very sensitive to the change in atmospheric conditions like temperature and pressure.
  

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

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Indian metallurgists   
Glenn T. Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph W. Kennedy, Edwin McMillan   

Discovery
Before 1000 BCE   
In Between 1940 1941   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
3 * 10-5 %   
11
Not Available   

Abundance In Sun
~0.0002 %   
10
~-9999 %   

Abundance In Meteorites
0.02 %   
12
Not Available   

Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.01 %   
16
Not Available   

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
10
Not Available   

Abundance In Humans
0.00 %   
6
Not Available   

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