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The comment reply to one of your comment replies explains it. Yes, to some degree, it's really the "last formed" date, but everything besides helium and hydrogen atoms had to be formed over time after the big bang by fusing inside stars. Even carbon.
https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.zip/comment/26154715