nucleosynthesis

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Many of them, such as oxygen and carbon, are only produced via stellar nucleosynthesis - inside giant stars.

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  1. noun The process by which heavier chemical elements are synthesized from hydrogen nuclei in the interiors of stars.

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  • This process of stellar nucleosynthesis is what creates the elements heavier than helium. —  Magazine - Aeon Authors - 2006 - Issue 06 - Aeon Six
  • Stellar Alchemy is an engaging account of nucleosynthesis in stars, and the associated chemical evolution of the Universe, that is suitable for the general reader. —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • Sightlines like GRB 080607 serve as powerful probes of nucleosynthesis and star-forming regions in the young universe and contribute to the population of "dark" GRB afterglows. afterglow collapsar collisionless cosmology cosmology-grb dark_matter density_profile engine fermi grb instabilities jets kelvin-helmholtz light-curve mf observations prompt reverse_shock shocks sn synchroton turbulence weibel wr_grb CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Whether a congenial world actually produces observers depends on a multitude of historical contingencies, beginning with primordial nucleosynthesis, which we do not explore. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Because of their ubiquitous nature, they are critical in cosmological nucleosynthesis and are essential elements of stars and giant planets. —  Signs of the Times
 

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