Yes, the halogens did occur in nature as free elements.
Halogens occur naturally in various minerals and salts, as well as in seawater. These elements are most commonly found in combination with metals like sodium, potassium, and magnesium. Halogens are highly reactive and will readily form compounds with other elements in the environment.
Also other elements can be involved.
There are variety of such elements. They have not been found on earth's surface.
118 total - 92 natural elements= 26 elements that do not naturally occur===========================
Some elements occur in nature in a pure form, and not as part of a compound with other elements. Elements such as copper, silver, and gold are also minerals. Almost all pure, solid elements are mentals.
Halogens occur naturally in various minerals and salts, as well as in seawater. These elements are most commonly found in combination with metals like sodium, potassium, and magnesium. Halogens are highly reactive and will readily form compounds with other elements in the environment.
Also other elements can be involved.
how may elements occur naturally in nature
Halogens naturally occur in the gaseous state. Examples of halogens are fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, and astatine.
About 80% of the first 117 elements occur in the nature in a stable manner.
no. uranium and thorium occur in nature
The same reason your mother doesn't.
Only Mercury occurs in nature as a liquid in its elemental state. Bromine is also a liquid element, but does not occur in its elemental form in nature.
There are variety of such elements. They have not been found on earth's surface.
118 total - 92 natural elements= 26 elements that do not naturally occur===========================
The stable halogens that occur in nature areFluorineChlorineBromineIodineAstatine.The artificially created element 117, provisionally referred to by the systematicname ununseptium, may also be a halogen.
There are a lot more than 63 known elements; we are currently up to 118.Most of these elements do occur in nature, and chemists find them in various rocks, in the atmosphere, or in other assorted places. For the elements that don't occur in nature, such as technitium, those are created by the use of particle accelerators.