Astro Alchemy: Where Rare Elements Come From
But Why?
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This is a channel dedicated to my 15 year old self who had a desire to learn, but didn't quite have the toolbox to fully understand everything around him. I create videos trying to explain things in a manner I believe I would have understood back then.
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How do you make gold? Simply bombard a nucleus with countless neutrons before it can decay. Special Thanks to Prof. Rob Jeffries from the Keele Astrophysics Group for his expertise in this area. Further reading: r-process nucleosynthesis and kilonovae from hypermassive neutron star post-merger remnants - https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3128 The Complete Explanation of the Nuclear Magic Numbers - https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/magicnumbers2.htm JWST detection of heavy neutron capture elements in a compact object merger - https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.02098
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