Why do atoms consistently combine into the 92 natural elements?
All the forms of matter known to science fall into a total of 92 types or categories, which we call elements. Think of this amazing infallibility! Whenever these invisible, microscopic atoms combine out of the millions of possible combinations, they never fail to combine into only one of 92 ways. By the laws of chance, they might combine into trillions of groups, but they do not! Not only that, but each time a group of atoms combine into a particular element, the element takes on the identical characteristics to every other time the same element was formed. The specific weight or gravitational pull of the matter will always be the same. For example, if a mass of matter combines into iron or potassium or any one of the elements, the mass will always have the same identical characteristics per basic unit of combined components. These combinations of matter will act and react to the entire range of variant physical conditions without variation, in precisely the exact manner so that man ha
