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DATA CREDIT© Wolfram Alpha, www.wolframalpha.com

hydrogenhelium

75%23%

ELEMENTS < 1%

ELEMENTS = 0% OR UNKNOWN

arsenicseleniumbrominekryptontechnetiumtelluriumiodinexenonpromethiumholmiumtantalumpoloniumastatineradonfrancium

radiumactiniumprotactiniumneptuniumplutoniumamericiumcuriumberkeliumcaliforniumeinsteiniumfermiummendeleviumnobeliumlawrenciumrutherfordium

dubniumseaborgiumbohriumhassiummeitneriumdarmstadtiumroentgeniumcoperniciumununtriumfleroviumununpentiumlivermoriumununseptiumununoctium

oxygencarbonnitrogenneoniron

siliconmagnesiumsulfur

nickelcalciumargonaluminumsodiumchromiummanganese

chlorinephosphorustitaniumpotassiumcobaltzinc

copperfluorinevanadiumgermanium

strontiumzirconiumscandiumgalliumrubidiummercuryyttriumleadbismuthbarium

tinplatinummolybdenumcesiumcadmiumrutheniumtungstenniobiumindiumceriumpalladiumneodymiumrhodiumosmiumlanthanumiridiumgadoliniumdysprosiumboronytterbiumuraniumthalliumsilversamariumpraseodymiumlutetiumhafniumgolderbiumantimony

europiumthoriumthuliumterbiumrheniumberyllium

lithium

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100% 75% 50% 25% 0% ELEMENTS > 1% PERCENTAGE OF ABUNDANCE LOCATION ON THE PERIODIC TABLE

OUR SUNCHEMICAL ABUNDANCES

OXYGEN PROFILE

The Universe Air Human Body

is the year oxygen was discovered, although there is a lot of controversy around the element's discovery. The Swedish pharmacist Carl Wilhelm Scheele described what he called "fire air" in his Treatise on Air and Fire while, independent of each other, the British clergyman Joseph Priestly and the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier both claimed to have discovered the element oxygen at about the same time as Scheele.

While making up about 1% of the Universe and a little less than 1% of the Sun, oxygen constitutes 21% of the air we breathe and 61% of our bodies.

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1% 21% 61%

ABUNDANCE OF OXYGEN IN:

Ooxygen

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