primordial
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"Comets are leftovers of the era of solar system formation, so they're made of 'old stuff' -- the primordial materials that made our solar system," said Bodewits.
From Science Daily
Glass removed violins from the orchestra to achieve a dark, primordial orchestral sound along with pounding percussion.
From Los Angeles Times
Recent discoveries about similar art-filled caves in France suggest that our ancestors were creating more than murals and pointillism beneath the primordial mists.
Columbus, he says, was America’s “Adam,” its primordial icon.
One key conclusion of the research is that mining undifferentiated asteroids -- the primordial remnants of the solar system's formation considered the progenitor bodies of chondritic meteorites -- remains impractical for now.
From Science Daily
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