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Life on Earth is carbon-based. Carbon forms bonds with hydrogen and oxygen to create organic compounds.
It is also often said that all life depends on water, meaning that all life requires the hydrogen and oxygen atoms too.
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What is the oldest element on earth?
Hydrogen
Golds family name or Rare Earth element series?
metal is it family and rare earth element is used if you do not know the family property
Is the Earth's atmosphere an element?
No. Earth's atmosphere is a mixture, mostly comprised of nitrogen and oxygen.
What element is an example of an alkaline earth metal?
None. The alkaline earth metal isotope with the fewest neutrons would be beryllium-7 with three neutrons and a half-life of 53 days.
Why is astatine is the rarest element on the earth?
Astatine is the rarest naturally occuring element on Earth because all its isotopes are radioactive with very short half-lives. The most stable, At-210 has a half-life of 8 hours, so any astatine that forms (by radioactive decay of heavier elements) quickly decays to other elements.
All life on earth is based on chains of atoms of this element?
carbon
What element is likely to be found in the molecules of living organisms?
Carbon. Life on Earth is based on the complex chemistry of Carbon.
What element is life based on?
Carbon
Is water the most common element on Earth?
Water is not an element. The element that is most present in the atmosphere is Nitrogen at about 70% (Oxygen is about 20%). I don't know about the most common element in the earth's crust though. I'd say that the most common element overall is Carbon (since all life is carbon based)
Is gold an earth based element?
no its not bcuz aug is a precious metal and earth does not have metal in its inner core aquafier and or the mantle so thre u have it gold is not an earth based element ;D
On Earth water is the solvent for carbon-based life. What element or compound substitute could be used in a formamide biolsolvent Is there a certain element or compound that could serve as the backbone for life that would have an affinity for formamide?
Kuta
What major element is life based on?
Carbon
Element on which life is based?
carbon
What other element could life be based on?
Silicon.
What is life on earth based on?
CARBON!
The appearance of what element on earth allowed life to flourish?
Oxygen
Is life a element?
No there's earth, wind, water, and fire.
