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Periodic Table: The Composition of Earth's Crust

Visualizing the chemical composition of Earth's crust was done through scaling the volume of each sphere according to the mass each element relative to the total mass.

 

The mass of each element in Earth's crust is printed in the bottom right corner in parts per billion by mass.

 

Source: CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 97th Edition, (2016-2017)

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