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by dannypgh 4026 days ago
Most atoms- and certainly most hydrogen- are in stars, no? Not exactly places where water "breaking down at high temperatures" (really, never forming) can be ignored.
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Most hydrogen (and baryonic mass in the universe) is in the interstellar/intergalactic gas clouds
Yes, I guess not even H2 is much stable in stars.

I would expect that in planet formation situations

It looks like most stars are too hot for molecular hydrogen, but some stars have a bit -- our own sun has some molecular hydrogen in sunspots:

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2013/mar/13/cold-hy...