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Re:What's the third most common element? by dannypgh on Thursday June 11, 2015 @08:11AM (#9699124)
Most atoms- and certainly most hydrogen- are in stars, no? Not exactly places where water "breaking down at high temperatures" (really, never forming) can be ignored.
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Re:What's the third most common element? by jigg4joe on Thursday June 11, 2015 @09:54AM (#9699690)
Most hydrogen (and baryonic mass in the universe) is in the interstellar/intergalactic gas clouds
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Re:What's the third most common element? by raverbashing on Thursday June 11, 2015 @08:29AM (#9699229)
Yes, I guess not even H2 is much stable in stars.

I would expect that in planet formation situations

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Re:What's the third most common element? by saalweachter on Thursday June 11, 2015 @01:15PM (#9700983)
It looks like most stars are too hot for molecular hydrogen, but some stars have a bit -- our own sun has some molecular hydrogen in sunspots:

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2013/mar/13/cold-hy...

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