2 Interesting Facts about the First 10 Chemical Elements

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1. Facts – Hydrogen

Hydrogen is the only element that can exist without neutrons. Hydrogen’s most abundant isotope has no neutrons.
Antihydrogen is the only antimatter element made so far, with atoms of antihydrogen synthesized at CERN lasting for as long as 1000 seconds (almost 17 minutes). Each atom of antihydrogen contains a positron (a positively charged version of the electron) orbiting an antiproton (negatively charged version of the proton).

2.Facts – Helium

Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe.
Helium exists in Earth’s atmosphere only because it is constantly resupplied from three sources: decay of radioactive elements on Earth; primordial helium released from the planet’s crust by volcanic activity; and cosmic rays, about 9% of which are high energy helium nuclei.

3.Facts – Lithium

The transmutation of lithium to tritium was the first man-made nuclear fusion reaction
Lithium is the lightest metal and the least dense solid element, with a density of about half that of water. In other words, if lithium didn’t react with water (which it does, somewhat vigorously), it would float.

4. Facts – Beryllium

Beryllium is not at all magnetic. It is because of this property that radar systems and radios are fine-tuned using this metal.
In order to make spark-proof tools, an alloy of Copper and Beryllium is used.

5. Facts – Boron

Boron is fairly rare in the solar system and makes up only 0.001% of the Earth’s crust, but its naturally occurring compounds are quite common.
Historically, borax glazes have been used by far-reaching cultures as early as AD300.

6. Facts – Carbon

Thanks to the complicated loop of the carbon cycle, the amount of carbon on Earth is effectively constant.
The three forms of carbon found freely in nature are the amorphous, graphite, and diamond, and each form has vastly different properties. A fourth form, buckminsterfullerene, was only discovered a few years ago.

7. Facts – Nitrogen

The human body contains about 3% nitrogen, making it the fourth most prevalent element after oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen.
Due to its volatility, it is a fairly rare element on Earth, remaining as a gas in the atmosphere.

8. Facts – Oxygen

Leonardo da Vinci first proposed that air was made up of two gases, one for breathing and one for fueling fire.
An allotrope of oxygen is ozone (O3), which forms the upper atmospheric ozone layer and absorbs UV radiation from the sun.

9. Facts – Fluorine

Fluorine is the thirteenth most abundant element in the Earth’s crust. The crust contains between 600 and 700 parts per million of fluorine.
The dangerous nature of producing elemental fluorine keeps it in its more viable form, hydrofluoric acid, which is a $16 billion per year industry.

10. Facts – Neon

The concentration of neon in the atmosphere is about 1 part in 55,000, or 18.2 ppm by volume or 1 part in 79,000 of air by mass.
In 1910, Georges Claude attempted to create interior home lighting using neon lights in vacuum tubes, but homeowners did not accept the idea due to their color.

Want to know more facts about other Chemical Elements as well, stay tuned for the next article in the series, 2 Interesting Facts about Period 3 Elements!

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Riddhi Bhattacharya is an amiable and aspiring student, freelance blogger, writer and editor at The Teen Pop Magazine. Her passion resides in etching down the feelings of her heart and the notions of her mind and conveying them to the world with her speeches, articles, blogs and debates.