There are about 10 ^ 80 atoms in the universe (that's 10 to the 80th power...a really big number). Of course, that's give or take a few orders of magnitude. According to one estimate, the range varies from 10 ^ 78 to 10 ^ 82. However many there are though, there are only 112 different kinds of atoms, one for each element of the periodic table.
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