Hades
Hadean
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a word derived from
Hades.
Example Sentences
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The Hadean Eon, which stretched from 4.6 to 4.0 billion years ago, represents one of the least understood periods in Earth's past.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2025
For many years, researchers believed that Earth remained in a "stagnant lid" state until at least the end of the Hadean.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2025
A handful of these zircons, clustering at an age of 4 billion years old, had very light oxygen isotope records compared with other Hadean zircons.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 30, 2024
The oldest is the Hadean, which marks the period in which our planet first formed some 4.5 billion years ago, around the same time our moon formed as well.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2023
Meantime the moon through slips of driving cloud Came forth, and glanced athwart the seas a path Of dusky splendour, like the Hadean brows, When with Elysian passion they behold Persephone's complacent hueless cheeks.
From Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith
