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  2. Abundance of elements in Earth's crust - Wikipedia

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    The Earth's crust is one "reservoir" for measurements of abundance. A reservoir is any large body to be studied as unit, like the ocean, atmosphere, mantle or crust. Different reservoirs may have different relative amounts of each element due to different chemical or mechanical processes involved in the creation of the reservoir. [1]: 18

  3. Iron - Wikipedia

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    While iron is the most abundant element on Earth, most of this iron is concentrated in the inner and outer cores. [43] [44] The fraction of iron that is in Earth's crust only amounts to about 5% of the overall mass of the crust and is thus only the fourth most abundant element in that layer (after oxygen, silicon, and aluminium). [45]

  4. Iron cycle - Wikipedia

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    The iron cycle is an important component of the terrestrial ecosystems. The ferrous form of iron, Fe 2+, is dominant in the Earth's mantle, core, or deep crust. The ferric form, Fe 3+, is more stable in the presence of oxygen gas. [22] Dust is a key component in the Earth's iron cycle.

  5. Abundance of the chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    These are rare in the crust from being soluble in iron and thus concentrated in Earth's core. Tellurium is the single most depleted element in the silicate Earth relative to cosmic abundance, because in addition to being concentrated as dense chalcogenides in the core it was severely depleted by preaccretional sorting in the nebula as volatile ...

  6. Iron ore - Wikipedia

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    Elemental iron is virtually absent on the Earth's surface except as iron-nickel alloys from meteorites and very rare forms of deep mantle xenoliths.Although iron is the fourth most abundant element in Earth's crust, composing about 5% by weight, [4] the vast majority is bound in silicate or, more rarely, carbonate minerals, and smelting pure iron from these minerals would require a prohibitive ...

  7. The Earth's iron core isn't just a solid mass

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    A new study by physicists discovers that the Earth's dense inner core is made up of constantly switching iron atoms.

  8. Earth - Wikipedia

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    Earth's crust consists of slowly moving tectonic plates, which interact to produce mountain ranges, ... It is composed mostly of iron (32.1% by mass), ...

  9. Clarke number - Wikipedia

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    10-mile crust, only igneous rocks. (i.e. exclude hydrosphere and atmosphere) "The earth's crust" in Clarke and Washington works can mean two different things: (a) The whole outer part of Earth, i.e. lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere; (b) Only the lithosphere, which in their works just meant "the rocky crust of the earth". "Crust" here ...