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Do atoms make up the Earth?
According to the US Department of Energy’s Jefferson Lab, the answer is: 133,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That answer comes from an estimation of the number of atoms in each of Earth’s elements, like Iron, Oxygen, Silicon, Magnesium, Sulfur … etc.
How did atoms get to Earth?
Where do atoms come from? Believe it or not, the atoms on Earth, including the ones in you and everything around you, came from outer space. Some atoms came from the original Big Bang that created the universe, but most came from exploding and colliding stars.
What existed before atoms?
Within minutes, these protons and neutrons combined into nuclei. It took 380,000 years for electrons to be trapped in orbits around nuclei, forming the first atoms. These were mainly helium and hydrogen, which are still by far the most abundant elements in the universe.
How did atoms create humans?
About 99 percent of your body is made up of atoms of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen atoms in you were produced in the big bang, and the carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms were made in burning stars. The very heavy elements in you were made in exploding stars.
What is the Earth mostly made up of?
The earth is made up of three different layers: the crust, the mantle and the core. This is the outside layer of the earth and is made of solid rock, mostly basalt and granite….The core.
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Are new atoms created?
The short answer is yes, atoms are being created all the time. It’s called nuclear fusion and basically involves mashing protons and neutrons together to form new atoms– some hydrogen, some helium, some lithium, etc, all the way up to iron. Another way to make new atoms is through a supernova.
Where do all the atoms on the Earth come from?
These hydrogen atoms can come together in nuclear processes called fusion, which is the process that powers the sun, and through fusion, heavier atoms such as carbon and nitrogen are produced. These in turn undergo fusion to make even heavier atoms, and it is such processes that created all the atoms in the earth.
How old was the Earth when it was created?
The Earth, like the other planets, was created around 4.54 billion years ago when some of the material from this disc came together to form a spherical body. At some point early in its history, it is thought that a smaller planet collided with this body, increasing its size and resulting in the formation of the Moon.
When did electrons combine to form atoms in the universe?
When the universe was around 380,000 years old electrons were able to combine with the nuclei to create atoms Since that time, some of the hydrogen and helium has combined to form stars and galaxies.
How was the Earth created in the Solar System?
Earth was first created by bombardment of particles and debris from space billion years ago. So are the rest of planets in the solar system. But due to different conditions and types of particles that collides, this makes each planet unique and has different environment.