Question

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18b. The most abundant element in Earth's crust and its percentage of occurrence.
Answer: The three most common elements found in the Earth's crust and the percentage of their total of all the elements found in the crust are:
# Oxygen--47% # Silicon--28% # Aluminum--8%

Answer 1

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Answer 2

I am in quiz bowl and sometimes questions appear asking what is the most common element in the Earth's Crust. Here is some of the notes I took to practice for questions like these:

"Oxygen (O, 8) is, by mass, the most common ELEMENT in Earth’s crust. It was discovered independently by Carl Scheele and Joseph Priestley; Priestley originally called it “dephlogisticated air."

"Aluminum (Al, 13) is the most common METAL in Earth’s crust, and the first metal in the p block of elements."

In other words you are correct in stating that Oxygen is the most common element in the Earth's Crust. I have no notes on Silicon but I do remember from Environmental Science that Aluminum is the most common metal from the Earth's Crust however it still carries the smallest amount of mass compared to Oxygen and Silicon.

I think you are correct in your answer.

Answer 3

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