Yet another Excel spreadsheet.  I merged a couple of published estimates of the elemental composition of the Earth’s crust.  Then I assigned each element an oxidation state and summed the oxidation states as weighted by the number of atoms.  Earth comes out as slightly reduced.

redox_balance_earth-s_crust

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