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Yes, the halogens did occur in nature as free elements.

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Where and how do halogens occur naturally?

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.


Do displacement reactions only occur between halogens?

Also other elements can be involved.


How many elements start naturally in nature?

how may elements occur naturally in nature


What state of matter do halogens naturally occur in?

Halogens naturally occur in the gaseous state. Examples of halogens are fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, and astatine.


How many chemicals occur in nature periodic table?

About 80% of the first 117 elements occur in the nature in a stable manner.


Is actinoids all transuranium elements?

no. uranium and thorium occur in nature


Why don't these elements occur in nature?

The same reason your mother doesn't.


two elements occur in a nature as liquid?

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.


How many elements are on the periodic table that do not occur in nature on earth?

There are variety of such elements. They have not been found on earth's surface.


How many elements shown in the periodic table do not occur in nature on earth?

118 total - 92 natural elements= 26 elements that do not naturally occur===========================


What are the six hallogens?

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.


How did you get the 63 known elements?

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.