Starting with hydrogen and ending with plutonium, the first ninety-four elements of the Table have been found occurring naturally on Earth. These elements are nature’s building blocks; the remaining twenty-four elements, can only be created artificially and live for very short periods of time. Using these ninety-four elements you can explain all of biology and chemistry without knowing about the underlying structure of protons and neutrons, electrons and quarks. This is because you need very high energies and temperatures to break apart the elements – a condition that only exists naturally deep inside the stars.

Starting with hydrogen and ending with plutonium, the first ninety-four elements of the Table have been found occurring naturally on Earth. These
elements are nature’s building blocks; the remaining twenty-four elements, can only be created artificially and live for very short periods of time. Using
these ninety-four elements you can explain all of biology and chemistry without knowing about the underlying structure of protons and neutrons, electrons
and quarks. This is because you need very high energies and temperatures to break apart the elements – a condition that only exists naturally deep
inside the stars.