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Synthesis of the Elements in Stars

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According to Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler and Hoyle (B2 FH), most of the elements were synthesized in the interior of stars by at least seven different types of nuclear processes. Deuterium, lithium, beryllium and boron are very unstable, however, at the temperatures of stellar interiors, so that they must have been produced in regions of low density and temperature. The nature of the x-process, which is responsible for the synthesis of these so-called “deficient” elements, has not yet been fully elucidated.

“The large amount of radioactive substances on the earth and some stars may therefore be regarded as the results of either somewhat sudden cooling of their mother rock or the ejection from the interior of stars.”

Seitaro Suzuki, Proc. of the Physico-Math. Soc. Japan 3rd Ser. 13:277 (1931)

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Kuroda, P.K. (1982). Synthesis of the Elements in Stars. In: The Origin of the Chemical Elements and the Oklo Phenomenon. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68667-2_5

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