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Elements found in nature are referred to natural elements, as opposed to synthetic, which are man made.

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What are elements that can not be found on earth and can be created called?

Synthetic elements are not found in nature but are created in laboratories.


What form are most elements in nature?

Most elements in nature are found in the solid state.


What elements before neptunium are not found in nature?

All the elements before neptunium are found in the nature. Also neptunium can be found in the nature only in ultratraces resulting from nuclear weapons experiments or other experiments.


What do you call elements that are not found in nature?

Several elements aren't found in their elemental form in nature: mostly alkali metals and alkali earth metals. Synthetically produced elements (with atomic numbers upward from 93) are also not found in nature.


Are alkali metals always found pure in nature?

Alkali metals are not found as pure elements in nature.


How are usually found?

In the nature the majority of chemical elements are found as compounds.


How many elements have been found to occur in nature?

There are currently 118 elements, ranging from #1 Hydrogen to #118 Ununoctium. Many of the transuranium elements (#93-#118) are synthetic, meaning that the only place they have been found is in a laboratory, thus do not exist in nature. Technetium (#43) and Promethium (#61) are also synthetic.


Which two groups of elements are never found uncombined in nature?

group 1 elements


What elements can be found in nature?

All the elements with the atomic number in the range 1-97.


Can new elements be found in the nature?

There aren't any more "new" elements that can be found in nature. The only elements left to discover are all man-made "super-heavy elements" (The uuu, uub, uut, etc. in the periodic table).


Are all known elements found in nature?

no there are nuclear atom


How do most elements in nature exist?

Most elements found in nature are in the combined form because of the ionic and hydroqen bondinq.