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The stable alpha elements are: C, O, Ne, Mg, Si, and S. The elements Ar and Ca are "observationally stable". They are synthesized by alpha capture prior to the silicon fusing stage, that leads to Type II supernovae. Si and Ca are purely alpha process elements. Mg can be separately consumed by proton capture reactions.
Abundance peaks for the r-process occur near mass numbers A = 82 (elements Se, Br, and Kr), A = 130 (elements Te, I, and Xe) and A = 196 (elements Os, Ir, and Pt). The r-process entails a succession of rapid neutron captures (hence the name) by one or more heavy seed nuclei, typically beginning with nuclei in the abundance peak centered on 56 Fe.
Neutron capture plays a significant role in the cosmic nucleosynthesis of heavy elements. In stars it can proceed in two ways: as a rapid process ( r-process ) or a slow process ( s-process ). [ 1 ] Nuclei of masses greater than 56 cannot be formed by exothermic thermonuclear reactions (i.e., by nuclear fusion ) but can be formed by neutron ...
Induced gamma emission belongs to a class in which only photons were involved in creating and destroying states of nuclear excitation. Fission reactions – a very heavy nucleus, after absorbing additional light particles (usually neutrons), splits into two or sometimes three pieces. This is an induced nuclear reaction.
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Eventually, the binding energy becomes negative and very heavy nuclei (all with more than 208 nucleons, corresponding to a diameter of about 6 nucleons) are not stable. The four most tightly bound nuclei, in decreasing order of binding energy per nucleon, are 62 Ni, 58 Fe, 56 Fe, and 60 Ni. [22] Even though the nickel isotope, 62 Ni
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