@jeffowski A lot of sciences just blatantly ignore the 1% though, astrophysics literally classifies that 1% as all metals (which would make any chemist have a brain aneurysm). This post kinda steelmans the position...
@Koopaisblazing -- I was explaining in RL to someone that during the big bang, the first atoms were H and He and that we had to have a few rounds of star formation and explosions to get to the rest of the periodic table.