氦是地球上最轻的元素之一，仅次于氢。在化学元素周期表里它排列第2位。氦的英文单词是“Helium”来源于希腊文单词，意思是“太阳”。氦也被称为“太阳元素”。
所以他根据事实推断，认为太阳中有一种元素在地球上还没有被发现。
So he put two and two together, and decided there was an element in the sun that hadn't been discovered here on the earth yet.
主要的差别是，相比于太阳，阿连德陨石缺失了大部分的挥发性元素，例如氢、碳、氧、氮和稀有气体。
The major difference is that Allende is depleted in the most volatile elements, like hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and the noble gases, relative to the Sun.
毕竟，太阳中任何元素的原子，比如说铁，都比陨石标本的原子要多得多，但这两种物质中铁和硅的比例可能是可以比较的。
After all, the Sun has many more atoms of any element, say iron, than does a meteorite specimen, but the ratios of iron to silicon in the two kinds of matter might be comparable.
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