In a finding that may overthrow our understanding of where Earth's
heavy elements such as gold and platinum come from, new research by a University of Guelph physicist suggests that most of them were spewed from a largely overlooked kind of star explosion far away in space and time from our planet.
I thought the prevailing wisdom these days is that early galaxies should be deficient in
heavy elements because they haven't been synthesized yet by supernovas.
Stars are continual chemical reactions involving hydrogen, about 10 percent helium, and traces of
heavy elements such as iron and calcium.
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Dr Joe Lyman, also from the University of Warwick, said: "
Heavy elements, like the gold or platinum in jewellery, are the cinders, forged in the billiondegree remnants of a merging neutron star."
IN A kind of alchemy, a fireball 130 million light years away created huge quantities of gold, along with platinum, uranium and other
heavy elements.
In a kind of alchemy, the fireball 130 million light years away created huge quantities of the precious metal, along with platinum, uranium and other
heavy elements. Scientists detected more gold than the whole of the Earth's mass in the chemical signatures of the explosion, dubbed a "kilonova".
(2) In place of the electrolyte with phosphorous that is used in many Li-ion batteries, a new electrolyte with
heavy elements is being utilized instead, thus replacing the phosphorous-containing ions that the Li-ions bind to as they move in the electrolyte with heavy element-containing ions.