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Formation of Light and Heavy Elements: Prepared By: Jerome A. Bigael, Leyte Progressive High School
Formation of Light and Heavy Elements: Prepared By: Jerome A. Bigael, Leyte Progressive High School
What am I?
Name this Riddle?
1. At night they come without being
fetched, and by day they are lost
without being stolen.
Ans.: HeHe
Origin of Heavier Elements
Heavy elements were
formed only billions of years
after the formation of
stars.
Origin of Heavier Elements
The density inside a star is
great enough to sustain fusion
for extended time periods
required to synthesize heavy
elements.
is the
combining of
nuclei to form
a bigger and
heavier
nucleus.
Nuclear fusion
🠶 I t is how elements hydrogen, Helium and small
amounts of lithium and beryllium were formed.
🠶 a process by which neutron and protons
combine together to form a new atom.
🠶 an extremely high energy and
temperature of the universe.
Proton and Neutron fusion
+ = New
Atom
Identity
of an
element
Stars are hot and
dense enough to burn
hydrogen-1 (1H) to
helium-4 (4He).
The formation of heavy
elements by fusion of lighter
nuclei in the interior of stars is
called “stellar nucleosynthesis”.
How were the heavy elements formed?
Stellar Nucleosynthesis
Stellar Nucleosynthesis