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Hydrogen

Z: 1
Mass: 1.008
Lifeforce: Source
In the body: lungs, muscle, dna

Before the first three minutes of the Big Bang were over, it was already there, before any star, before fire and water went their separate ways. The source-letter with which all matter begins.

A round garden with a clear spring at its center, encircled by flame, bowl, kites and terrace. — Plate · Source The Source needs nothing. It *rests* whole, all forces circling its center.

Born of the Big Bang itself. 75% of all ordinary matter in the universe is hydrogen, every star’s first fuel, every water molecule’s two-thirds.

Lab note · Bound into every water molecule, every protein, every strand of DNA; roughly 10% of your body mass is hydrogen.

Tool · Cosmic origin

Where your atoms come from

H · Big Bang

Born of the Big Bang itself, present since the first three minutes of the cosmos.

3 of the 118 elements share this origin.

Choose a stage: click, or arrow keys. · Cosmic nucleosynthesis · current standard model

Tool · Periodic table

Your place in the system

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Fire
Water
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Earth
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