what are the abundant metal and element on earth?
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I have disagree with the first answer as 35% of the earth is Iron. And while Aluminum is more abundent on the surface, nearly 80% of the core is iron. So I have to go with Iron.
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Iron = Transition Metal\nCobalt = Transition Metal\nSodium = Metal (oddly enough)\nOxygen = Nonmetal (gas)\nHelium = Nonmetal (noble gas)
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soil, timber, oil, minerals, coffee, beans, water, Biotic resources, wind, tides and solar radiation, solar power, bauxite, coal, copper, gold, silver, diamonds, iron, precious metals, lead, limestone, nickel, phosphate, oil shale, rock salt, tin, uranium, and molybdenum, forests, fish, herbs.
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Most of the earth is made of iron and nickel.  This might not appear to be true at first because we see that the ground does not feel like metal, but the earth's inner and outer cores consist primarily of molten iron and nickel.  The earth's crust is only a few miles thick (at the thickest) and floats on top of the molten layers.
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You need to look at a Periodic Table. The farther to the left of the table an element is, the more metallic it is.
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Um, there's over a hundred elements.  I'm not going to name them all for you.  Look at a periodic table.  I'm sure there's one in your chemistry book.
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3 elements:\n\nOxygen, heat, & fuel.
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oxygen, nitrogen, every fuckin mineral and more on the periodic table...take chemistry
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Mostly hydrogen. There is a little bit of helium and heavier elements in there as well.
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Most Common Element\nHydrogen is the most common element in both the Universe and the Solar System. Over 90% of the Universe is comprised of hydrogen. -----Iron is the most common element on Earth,----- accounting for 36% of its mass.
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Coal, iron ore, copper, chromium, antimony, mercury, gold, barite, borate, celestite (strontium), emery, feldspar, limestone, magnesite, marble, perlite, pumice, pyrites (sulfur), clay, arable land, and hydropower.
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Cu.\nIt is a transition metal with ions of Cu+ and Cu2+.
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Any metal whose concentration can be determined by ICP (inductively coupled plasma).  Pretty much any metal but mercury.
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http://www.chemicalelements.com/elements/k.html\n\nhttp://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Q6.htm
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Unfortunately, a lot of substances are a mixture of metals and nonmetals. But here are a few suggestions:\n\n-Aluminum foil. Need I say more?\n-Dry ice, carbon dioxide, is made up of two nonmetals\n-Potassium is a metal you should be able to find as a vitamin. They also make iron and calcium supplements.\n-You might be able to find a mercury thermometer.\n-Helium balloons. \n-Gold, silver, and copper jewelry (although most jewelry will actually be alloys of a few metals)\n\nI hope that helped.
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So, you want a table of common chemical elements, and with their importance and uses.\n\nBut, how do you define the word common?  Commonly found on earth, in the universe, in the human body, or commonly used in chemical/industrial processes.\n\nYou just cannot outsource everything man to Yahoo Answer Group without specifying requirements; it won't work.  Think over your homework a little, and then ask for details.  That is easier.
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you mean ferrum it is nothing but the latin name of iron.\n\nIron is the most abundant metal on Earth, and is believed to be the tenth most abundant element in the universe. Iron is also the second most abundant element by mass, making up 34% of the mass of the Earth; the concentration of iron in the various layers of the Earth ranges from high (how much is "high?") at the inner core to about 5% in the outer crust. It is possible the Earth's inner core consists of a single iron crystal, although it is more likely to be a mixture of iron and nickel. The large amount of iron in the Earth is thought to create its magnetic field (you mean to say this isn't known for sure?).\n\nIron is a metal extracted from iron ore, and is almost never found in the free elemental state. In order to obtain elemental iron, the impurities must be removed by chemical reduction. Iron is used in the production of steel, an alloy or solid solution of different metals, and some non-metals, particularly carbon.\n\nNuclei of iron have some of the highest binding energies per nucleon, surpassed only by the nickel isotope 62Ni. The universally most abundant of the highly stable nucleides is, however, 56Fe. This is formed by nuclear fusion in the stars. Although a further tiny energy gain could be extracted by synthesizing 62Ni, conditions in stars are not right for this process to be favoured. When a very large star contracts at the end of its life, internal pressure and temperature rise, allowing the star to produce progressively heavier elements, despite these being less stable than the elements around mass number 60, known as the "iron group". This leads to a supernova.\n\nSome cosmological models with an open universe predict that there will be a phase where as a result of slow fusion and fission reactions, everything will become iron.