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[โ€“] frostysauce@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I figure in the last four billion years or so all water has been previously boiled...

[โ€“] rekabis@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Atoms cannot be easily created or destroyed.

However molecules can and often are easily assembled.

Water is one of those molecules which are easy to create, and easy to break back apart into its constituent atoms. So yes, there is likely plenty of water that has never been boiled because it was created so recently (cosmologically speaking).