Keeping track of all of this will be like trying to count grains of sand on a windswept, stormy beach.

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The bitumen coats the grains of sand like a film and is in turn surrounded by water.

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Vaguely analogous to grains of green Hawaiian beach sand, chondrules are arguably the glue needed to make planets like ours.

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