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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.

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.