• Question: how many elements are naturally occuring now?

    Asked by dabeast to Simon on 12 Nov 2013.
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      Simon Langley-Evans answered on 12 Nov 2013:

      Good question. If you look at an up to date periodic table there are 118 elements listed, but all of the newly discovered ones are actually found only under laboratory conditions and do not exist naturally. There are 92 natural elements- the last of which is Uranium.

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