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[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I wondered if the graph would look entirely different when looking at mass instead of atom count, and not really:

Hydrogen and helium make up 99% of all atoms and 98% of all mass.

https://sciencenotes.org/composition-of-the-universe-element-abundance/

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 105 points 4 days ago (15 children)

The non-Hydrogen, non-Helium atoms are a larger proportion of total mass, but that's just because they're really fat.

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Gender is different vibrations on a string

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