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seanmorris t1_j4ecktb wrote

Reply to comment by higashidakota in How do we know oxygen, and not another element, is the third most abundant element in the universe? by ChickFleih

Are prime odds less prevalent than nonprime odds?

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xXijanlinXx t1_j4efz1y wrote

Look at this and decide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elements#/media/File:Elements_abundance-bars.svg

personally I think they are but there is also the unreasonably low amount of Perfect square elements which is strange

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Norwester77 t1_j4erlti wrote

Beryllium and fluorine, certainly—but sulfur is pretty common, and manganese is unusually common for an odd-numbered element.

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higashidakota t1_j4epn94 wrote

Also good to note it’s a logarithmic scale, ie two elements that are one unit apart from another means that one is 10x more abundant

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mfb- t1_j4hqz1j wrote

There is nothing special about being prime, except from the fact that all primes besides 2 are odd.

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