nucleosynthesis
IPA: nˈukɫioʊsˈɪnθʌsʌs
noun
- (physics, astronomy) Any of several processes that lead to the synthesis of heavier atomic nuclei.
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Examples of "nucleosynthesis" in Sentences
- Next we will be claiming radioactivity is nucleosynthesis!
- You then say "Spallation is indeed a type of nucleosynthesis."
- He is just avoiding nucleosynthesis by fusion issue yet again.
- When atoms are smashed in colliders using particles like electrons, we don't really call that "nucleosynthesis" via fusion?
- What was the connection you had in mind when you mentioned both electric currents in the corona and nucleosynthesis in flares?
- This process is really radioactive – as the reactions do not make the sun shine – nucleosynthesis in the core via fusion does that.
- The earliest period we have good confirmation of is Big Bang nucleosynthesis, which is some minutes if memory serves after the Big Bang.
- The Sun inherited its chemical composition from the interstellar medium out of which it formed: the hydrogen and helium in the Sun were produced by Big Bang nucleosynthesis.
- He actually believes that ALL nucleosynthesis (fusion and spallation) occurs in flares and the magnetic / electric fields either on the photosphere, below the surface of the photosphere, and in flares. (just ask and see the responses of his EU/PC mates sorley (avatared sometimes as Tim Erney) and Anaconda.)
- She was a co-author of the FCZ paper (“Thermonuclear Reaction Rates”) which was one of the main references for nucleosynthesis theory for a long time (as well as the principle author of the 1988 updated version of the same article, less than a decade before her death), and the primary author of “Combined Hydrogen and Helium Burning in the Core of a Population II Red-Giant Star” (co-authored with Fowler).
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