This nebular mass eventually formed galaxies, stars, and other by-products. The universe has billions of galaxies. Most dated meteorites are 4.55 by old. Plus N 2 . O evaporated, photodissociated, and H 2 escaped.
Minerals are naturally-occurring inorganic solid with an orderly arrangement of atoms.
These elements are not evenly distributed. Each of these element have contrasting affinities with specific anions, and that the thermodynamics of the deep Earth tended to favor the formation of silicates, metals and oxides. It is distinct from sediments, which are transported unconsolidated materials. The mineralogic, chemical, and physical properties of the two may well be identical - the key difference is that the latter has been transported . Extensive mineralogical alteration.