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Water is the active creator of our planet, one of its main "building materials".
Billions of years ago, in a cold gas-dust cloud, eventually thickened, condensed and became the Earth, water was already contained. Most likely, it was in the form of ice dust. This is confirmed by the study of the universe. It has been established that the initial elements for the formation of water - hydrogen and oxygen - belong to the six most abundant substances of the cosmos in our Galaxy.
Clusters of water molecules and hydroxide radicals are found outside the solar system. Clouds composed of water molecules were found in the constellations of Cassiopeia and Orion. The dimensions of the clouds are colossal - their extent is 40 times the distance from the Sun to the Earth. Cases of falling to the Earth of the remains of cometary nuclei are not uncommon -
"Messengers" of distant worlds. Most often they are giant blocks of ice, frozen with methane, ammonia and mineral particles. The weight of ice blocks reaching the Earth can reach hundreds of kilograms.
Years of research on the geological processes taking place on our planet, scientists established that it was water and its constituent elements that played a decisive role in the entire geological history of the Earth. Examining the oxygen content in the composition of the earth's crust, the scientist concluded that huge amounts of water participated in the formation of the proto-earth. In addition, its elements were part of the main components of the original cloud: hydrogen - in the composition of metal hydrides, oxygen - in the composition of oxides.