Are all materials made up of elements?

Answer 1

Any material that you encounter on earth is made of an element or some combination of elements. An element is just the name of a substance that contains just one type of atom. An atom is just a specific combination of neutrons, protons, and electrons; atoms/elements are defined in the Periodic Table according to their atomic number, which is the number of protons in their nucleus. So every material you encounter is some combination of electrons, protons or neutrons unless you are encountering some very high energy phenomena.

A material which is not made of elements could be pure electrons. Although close to impossible to isolate (they repel each other so strongly), pure electrons would not be an element. Electricity in a wire would not count because this is just a wire, with some electrons flowing through it and those electrons make up the elements in the wire.

A material which is not made of elements could be a plasma. A plasma from Hydrogen in which all electrons and protons are disassociated may be considered not of an element (although not all plasma's would meet this condition and even then you could still consider this plasma an ionized Hydrogen).

Very high energy phenomena, such as those in particle accelerators and the early universe, create fundamental particles and plasmas which are certainly not elements (like a quark-gluon plasma). There is basically no material that you could encounter and live to tell that tale that is not made up of some combination of elements.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

All visible matter in the universe is believed to be made up of elements, but the nature of "dark matter" is unknown.