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hydrogen
helium
75%
23%
ELEMENTS < 1%
ELEMENTS = 0% OR UNKNOWN
arsenic
selenium
bromine
krypton
technetium
tellurium
iodine
xenon
promethium
holmium
tantalum
polonium
astatine
radon
francium
radium
actinium
protactinium
neptunium
plutonium
americium
curium
berkelium
californium
einsteinium
fermium
mendelevium
nobelium
lawrencium
rutherfordium
dubnium
seaborgium
bohrium
hassium
meitnerium
darmstadtium
roentgenium
copernicium
ununtrium
flerovium
ununpentium
livermorium
ununseptium
ununoctium
oxygen
carbon
nitrogen
neon
iron
silicon
magnesium
sulfur
nickel
calcium
argon
aluminum
sodium
chromium
manganese
chlorine
phosphorus
titanium
potassium
cobalt
zinc
copper
fluorine
vanadium
germanium
strontium
zirconium
scandium
gallium
rubidium
mercury
yttrium
lead
bismuth
barium
tin
platinum
molybdenum
cesium
cadmium
ruthenium
tungsten
niobium
indium
cerium
palladium
neodymium
rhodium
osmium
lanthanum
iridium
gadolinium
dysprosium
boron
ytterbium
uranium
thallium
silver
samarium
praseodymium
lutetium
hafnium
gold
erbium
antimony
europium
thorium
thulium
terbium
rhenium
beryllium
lithium
0.9
0.3
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.09
0.07
0.04
0.008
0.007
0.007
0.006
0.004
0.002
0.001
8×10-4
7×10-4
4×10-4
4×10-4
4×10-4
2×10-4
7×10-5
5×10-5
4×10-5
2×10-5
5×10-6
4×10-6
4×10-6
4×10-6
3×10-6
2×10-6
1×10-6
1×10-6
1×10-6
1×10-6
9×10-7
9×10-7
9×10-7
8×10-7
6×10-7
5×10-7
4×10-7
4×10-7
4×10-7
4×10-7
3×10-7
3×10-7
2×10-7
2×10-7
2×10-7
2×10-7
2×10-7
2×10-7
2×10-7
1×10-7
1×10-7
1×10-7
1×10-7
1×10-7
1×10-7
1×10-7
1×10-7
1×10-7
1×10-7
1×10-7
5×10-8
3×10-8
2×10-8
1×10-8
1×10-8
1×10-8
6×10-9
100% 75% 50% 25% 0% ELEMENTS > 1% PERCENTAGE OF ABUNDANCE LOCATION ON THE PERIODIC TABLE
OUR SUN
CHEMICAL 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.
1775
1% 21% 61%
ABUNDANCE OF OXYGEN IN:
Ooxygen
8
15.9994
8
8