<span>The earth's crust is primarily composed of a mineral named feldspars. Feldspars are the most common mineral by a margin of 30% more than the second most common mineral, quartz. Together, both of these minerals make about 50% of our Earth's crust.</span>
The atomic number tells the number of protons.
The reasonable ground-state electron configuration is: 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s2 4d8