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How old are atoms?

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Most of them are 5 billion years old or older. They were formed in stars by thermonuclear fusion. When those stars became novae or supernovae, the atoms were blasted out into space. Some of these would have formed the stellar nebula from which our solar system condensed. Since the sun is around 4.5 billion years old, these atoms, which must have become part of the solar nebula before that, must be older than 4.5 billion years.

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All atoms and electrons ar ebelieved to be the same age. According to big bang theory thay all came into existence 13 billion years ago

It is generally thought that the higher elements (those elements with a nucleus more than just a single proton) were created later via nuclear fusion in the cores of stars, As is still happening in the sun right now. And get distributed into space rubble (like the Earth) via stellar explosions.

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Almost literally invented the day after energy.

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No one knows for sure, but most carbon atoms are at least several billion years old.

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It's impossible to know, but the matter you are made of has been around since the big bang several billion years ago.

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13 millin years old

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