Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Show Join Reddit r/NoStupidQuestions Posted by1 year ago Archived  This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast level 1 Trees are probably rarer than gold in the entire universe. level 2 But are the elements trees are made of rarer than gold in the universe? Edit: Google says trees are made primarily of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. All of which are more common than gold. Apples and oranges comparing occurrence of elements vs occurrence of life. level 1 Gold's mass fraction is at about 4 x 10-9 in the earth's crust and about 1x10-7 in the solar system's bodies. So gold is about 25 times more common in general then in the crust, this is because gold is soluble is iron and clumps in our planet's core. level 1 I hear the frequency of an element in the universe is related to its atomic number. So hydrogen is most common, 2nd most is helium, 3rd is lithium, etc. gold’s atomic number is 79 so it’s 79th most common, which is pretty low down the list. level 2 It's a good first order approximation but it's not a perfect list. level 2 This is a bit misleading. Hydrogen and helium are both way more abundant than anything else. After that, oxygen (8) and carbon (6) are the next most common, followed by neon (10), iron (26), nitrogen (7) and silicon (14). Liithium is thousands of times less abundant than any of these. There is an overall tendency for heavier elements to be rarer, but the relationship is not very strict. (Gold is less abundant than lithium, though.) https://periodictable.com/Properties/A/UniverseAbundance.an.html This has to do with quirks of nuclear physics and how stars fuse elements together. level 1 Everything except hydrogen and helium is "rare" in the universe. Gold is only formed in supernova, so it's going to be rare everywhere (but is probably most likely found on planets in about the same orbit as earth, or rocky/metallic meteoroids). level 2 Oxygen and Carbon are pretty common level 1 Wood is rarer in the universe than gold or diamonds, as far as we know level 1 Only earth and a few other places level 1 It's rare generally. There are some places where it's more common than it is on Earth, but it's not a common element as elements go. level 1 Compared with other elements in the universe, you can say the amount of gold is miniscule. The top 3 most abundant elements in the universe are Hydrogen, Helium and Oxygen. But compared with what's found on Earth, gold is not rare at all, just our Sun contains almost 2.5 trillion tons of gold, enough to fill Earth's oceans and more. level 1 I could not find anything that showed specifically gold but what I did find included lots of gold, supposedly including gold and other precious materials the asteroid belt alone is worth 700 quadrillion usd, sorry if your not American because I don't feel like converting that to pounds or euros or whatever currency you use. level 1 Gold isn't really that rare on Earth. Just think how almost every civilization has used gold to display wealth. Every civilization has gone and dug up gold and built something with it to show that they can. Today almost every computer has gold in it and just think how many of computers are out there. If you live in a high income country you probably have at three in your house if you live alone. There's loads of gold on earth, or there was. I don't know if we've dug up most of it yet. Gold is so common because it's so unreactive it doesn't corrode or react with anything in the air or earth. About CommunitySimilar to this post
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Is gold rare or abundant on Earth?Gold is an extremely rare element on Earth. Because it doesn't react with very many other elements, it is often found in its native form in the Earth's crust or mixed with other metals like silver. It can be found in veins underground or in small fragments in sandy riverbeds. Gold is also found in ocean water.
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