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- noun The process by which heavier chemical elements are synthesized from lighter atomic nuclei in the interiors of stars, during supernova explosions, and in the early stages of the universe.
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- noun physics, astronomy Any of several processes that lead to the
synthesis of heavieratomic nuclei .
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- noun (astronomy) the cosmic synthesis of atoms more complex than the hydrogen atom
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Examples
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The earliest period we have good confirmation of is Big Bang nucleosynthesis, which is some minutes if memory serves after the Big Bang.
Your Favorite Conservatives on Evolution and ID - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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When atoms are smashed in colliders using particles like electrons, we don't really call that "nucleosynthesis" via fusion?
SDO On Station Transmitting First Data as Solar Science Payloads Open Today | Universe Today 2010
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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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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.
Think Progress » Sarah Palin calls global warming studies ‘snake oil science.’ 2010
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You then say "Spallation is indeed a type of nucleosynthesis."
SDO On Station Transmitting First Data as Solar Science Payloads Open Today | Universe Today 2010
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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.)
SDO On Station Transmitting First Data as Solar Science Payloads Open Today | Universe Today 2010
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This process is really radioactive – as the reactions do not make the sun shine – nucleosynthesis in the core via fusion does that.
SDO On Station Transmitting First Data as Solar Science Payloads Open Today | Universe Today 2010
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Next we will be claiming radioactivity is nucleosynthesis!
SDO On Station Transmitting First Data as Solar Science Payloads Open Today | Universe Today 2010
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He is just avoiding nucleosynthesis by fusion issue yet again.
SDO On Station Transmitting First Data as Solar Science Payloads Open Today | Universe Today 2010
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What was the connection you had in mind when you mentioned both electric currents in the corona and nucleosynthesis in flares?
SDO On Station Transmitting First Data as Solar Science Payloads Open Today | Universe Today 2010
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