If an element is more reactive, is it more likely to be found as an element or a compound?

It is more likely to be found as a COMPOUND, as it is more reactive, by the time we found them, they're already reacted with other elements or compounds to form new compounds.
Example is oxygen, it is very reactive, therefore we often found oxygen in water, which is H2O, in earth, instead of just pure oxygen.

The  grandmother cell  is a hypothetical  neuronthat represents a complex but specific concept or object.[1]  it activates when a person "sees, hears, or otherwise sensibly discriminates"[2]  a specific entity, such as his or her grandmother. the term was in use at least as early as 1966 amongst staff and students in the department of experimental psychology, university of cambridge, england. a similar concept, that of the  gnostic neuron, was proposed two years later

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