which elements are not found in their elemental states.?

Answer 1

It is easier to turn the question around. Elements found in their elemental states include all of the nobel gases. Also the precious metals: gold, platinum, silver, and paladium.

Also oxygen and nitrogen gas. There are traces of chlorine gas in the atmosphere.

Sulfur exist in its elemental form as flowers of sulfur.

There may be a few more.

Answer 2

I know oxygen and hydrogen are rarely found in their elemental states. Because they are so reactive, you usually find them bound to themselves or another element, like H2, or O2. There are also other elements, like the earth metals that are rarely found in their pure state because of their reactivity. I don't have a list off-hand, but the site I posted is pretty good.

Answer 3

Most are not found in their elemental state.

The noble gases are, b/c they don't react.

O2, N2 are, they are in the atmosphers.
C- there is enough graphite I suppose.

Most everything else reacts b/c it's a lower energy state, and higher entropy. (Si in SiO2, Fe in Fe2O3, Na and Cl to form NaCl, etc)

Answer 4

gases like H2, O2, He2

Answer 5

alkali metals and alkaline-earth metals.