[April Lexington]

I hate to rain on your parade but reading in English is important. Elements are the same age. COMPOUNDS come and go.

[LuvFreeRepublic]

Elements are the same age. COMPOUNDS come and go.

Good discussing going on. Just wanted to add one slightly philosophical comment. You are correct in that All elements are the same age, as in they are of "no age". Think infinity.

[aruanan]

I hate to rain on your parade but reading in English is important. Elements are the same age. COMPOUNDS come and go.

Dear April, elements are not all the same age. You're about as fundamentally wrong as it is possible to be.

[aruanan]

I hate to rain on your parade but reading in English is important. Elements are the same age. COMPOUNDS come and go.

And as far as reading is concerned, I was responding to the first sentence of your post that was responding to the article about the "world's oldest water." Were you referring to something other than water? Then you should have quoted, as I have, exactly what in the article you were responding to and then followed it up with something that was factual. Maintaining that all elements are the same age is not factual.