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Llar Nucleosynthesis and The Formation of Heavy Elements
Llar Nucleosynthesis and The Formation of Heavy Elements
Stellar Nucleosynthesis
and the Formation of
Heavy Elements
….and there was light.
BIG BANG!
After Big Bang, the universe continued to expand. The clouds of gas floating are
made of clouds of hydrogen and helium, which are left over from supernovas.
Matter started to form lumps, and some of which clumped together and formed
galaxies.
FORMATION OF GALAXIES
protogalaxy refers to a
galaxy that is
experiencing its first
generation of star
formation
These clumped matters are called protogalaxies (also called primeval galaxy, is a
cloud of gas which is forming into a galaxy). Inside these protogalaxies, the internal
lumps collapsed due to gravitational forces.
The correct saying is...
Isaac Newton
As the formation of new nuclei continue from
Iron-56 and other nuclei with mass number of 56 are stable nuclei and their fusion
with a helium nucleus would require energy instead of producing it. As a result,
stellar nuclear burning stops at iron.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A STAR STOPS
PRODUCING ENERGY?
With no further production of energy at the core the gravitational forces take over and
the core collapses, quickly and catastrophically initiates a supernova and a blackhole.
IF A STAR COLLAPSES WHAT HAPPENS
NEXT?
The massive star that ends up as supernovas are manufacturers of elements
heavier than iron.
These heavier elements like gold, silver, lead and mercury require the very special
conditions of pressure and heat that exist inside a supernova during those few
seconds of the collapse. Supernovas are also distributors of the elements in the
universe because during the explosion, all the elements that have been formed are
flung into space.
Our own Sun and the planets in the solar system were formed from the debris of
earlier stars that have run through their life cycles. Since then, the Sun shines and the
cycle will continue!
FUN? FACT!
Astronomers estimate that the sun has about 7 billion to 8 billion years left before
it sputters out and dies.
The sun won't become a supernova nor a black hole because it is not massive enough.
Our sun needs to be 10 times of its own mass to be able to become a supernova.
-NASA 2021
ASSIGNMENT
Timeline of Element Discovery Reporting Radium's main practical use has been
117 Element discoveries - 28 Timespans in medicine, producing radon gas
from radium chloride to be used in
Example: Radium (1898) radiotherapy for cancer
(ray·dee·uhm) Significance of Element Discovery