MORE THAN THE MOST ABUNDANT. “More than ninety per cent of the universe is composed of hydrogen and helium. Both elements have been around since shortly after the beginning of the universe. Yet, hydrogen and helium together won’t make anything as complex as the Earth, or a bacterium, or a refrigerator, or you and I. To do that, we need carbon and oxygen and nitrogen and silicon and chlorine and every other naturally occurring element. All of the other naturally occurring elements were created in stars.”
https://physics.info/nucleosynthesis/
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022