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Hydrogen is the most abundant element in existence

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Roughly seventy-five percent of all elemental mass in the universe is just this one basic configuration: a single proton with a single electron hanging around it. The cosmos is incredibly uncreative, heavily mass-producing the simplest possible element and leaving the other hundred-plus heavier atoms as rare cosmic afterthoughts forged only in massive explosions.

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