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Non Life Sciences => Chemistry => Topic started by: joeweller on 10/06/2016 14:00:42
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This is a Periodic Table by Abundance. It is an old version; is it still accurate?
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It looks like this is reporting the abundance on Earth. It looks about right except for Fr and Pt, which should both be much smaller.
Compare to: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Elemental_abundances.svg/300px-Elemental_abundances.svg.png and https://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/Graphics-Geol/geochem/ptabccr.gif
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Is there really that much oxygen? I thought hydrogen was much more abundant...?
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Is there really that much oxygen? I thought hydrogen was much more abundant...?
well I don't remeber where I saw this but I think that hydrogen is more abundant in space
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I think it's a question of whether we are talking about abundance by mass or by number of atoms. In Space, it's almost entirely hydrogen, with some helium, and a smattering of other elements, so this must be showing the abundance on Earth.
There is a LOT of oxygen on earth. Silica (SiO2) silicates (SiO44–) carbonates (CO32–), sulfates (SO42–) phosphates (PO43–) etc. are a significant proportion of the minerals on Earth.
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I thought hydrogen was much more abundant...?
Of course, if you were measuring the Solar System, it would be mostly Hydrogen, a bit of Helium, and not very much of anything else - primarily due to the Sun and Jupiter.
Another measure is by volume. If you are looking at the surface of the Earth:
- In water, the Oxygen is much larger than the hydrogen (and much of the earth's hydrogen is bound up in water and hydrocarbons/carbohydrates).
- Oxygen often forms an O2- ion, and it swells up considerably compared to neutral oxygen atoms.
- If I remember my geology classes, in silicates, the Oxygen atoms take up a considerable volume, with the silicon atoms nestled in-between.
If you are looking at the core of the Earth, you would find mostly Iron and Nickel, plus elements which are soluble in these metals.
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Broadly, the radioactive ones are wrong. far too much Pa, Ra, Fr, Po, At and Rn etc compared to , eg U.