On 27-Aug-2003, (William R. Watt) wrote:

I found a dictionary which does say oxygen is "the most abundant element".
It's the Gage Canadian dictionary. I have it right here too. I'm not sure
what they mean by that. None of my other dictionaries make that claim.

One dictionary says oxygen is only 21% of the atmoshpere. Of course oxygen
occurs in other forms, as an element in water, for example.

So you proved yourself wrong. Instead of trying to dump on me - try looking up
your facts _before_ posting.

Mike

snip wild discussion about chemistry and cosmology

Please tell me you guys *aren't* arguing about which element is most
prevalent in the universe, on RBP, in a thread that originally concerned the
use of sponsons?!?!

Maybe this is worth posting to sci.chem? :-)