How do you think Oxygen can be in the crust when it is a gas at room temperature in the atmosphere?

Through diffusion

Explanation:

Oxygen can be defined as the most abundant element on earth. It is a gas at room temperature. It becomes the part of the earth crust by the process of diffusion.

Diffusion is a process of movement of molecules from a region of high concentration to the low concentration. The oxygen remains in high concentration in the atmosphere diffuses into earth crust at low concentration.

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explanation:

covalent bonds

consist of pairs of electrons shared by two atoms, and bind the atoms to fixed orientation and requre high energies to break them

ionic bonds

when two atoms differ considerably in their electronegativity, then one of the atoms will lose its electron to the other atom. this results in a positively charged ion(cation) and a negatively charged ion (anion)