2006-07-31 03:42:16 · 13 answers · asked by higgs_craig 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
It all depends on weather you'd consider only naturally occuring metals, or artificially produced one.
If artificial is OK, then just look at the latest element discovered on the periodic table, and home in to the heaviest element actually sythesized: ununxium, for which a single atom was produced (!) that decayed in a few millisecond.
For the naturally occuring elements, again it is mostly a case of mass (the heavier the element, the less likely it was sythesized naturally in exploding supernova, which is the way all heavier atoms were originally produced). On earth, the rarest metal is irridium, which is also the densest metal known.
2006-07-31 03:57:32 · answer #1 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
World Rarest Metal
2016-12-18 07:53:47 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einsteinium
2006-07-31 21:25:07 · answer #3 · answered by ifawnzilla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobelium
2006-07-31 04:04:04 · answer #4 · answered by lidipiwi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lutetium
2006-07-31 03:49:15 · answer #5 · answered by Raylene G. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the latest metal used in golf clubs:
Unobtainium
So expensive nobody can afford them.
2006-07-31 03:45:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The stuff the use to build the UFOs with.
2006-07-31 03:47:00 · answer #7 · answered by Kain 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uranium perhaps
2006-07-31 03:46:00 · answer #8 · answered by reiwo023-9085j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technetium (Its artificial)
2006-07-31 03:47:17 · answer #9 · answered by ag_iitkgp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It must be Platinum.
2006-07-31 03:45:15 · answer #10 · answered by suchsi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋