• Question: what was the first element

    Asked by anon-244568 to Jordan, Ed, Christine on 16 Mar 2020.
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      Edward Banks answered on 16 Mar 2020:

      In terms of first element created, that was Hydrogen, very shortly after the big bang.
      In terms of first element identified by humans, that’s actually a bit trickier to determine but it was probably Copper. Humans have been mining specifically for copper since at least 6000BCE, and possibly as early as 9000BCE.

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