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- noun physics, astronomy The relatively rapid
nucleosynthesis process, insupernovae , in which a largeneutron flux allows rapidneutron capture and synthesis ofelements up to thetransuranic elements.
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To make these atoms, neutrons must enter the nucleus and then transform into protons once inside, a process known as rapid neutron capture or r-process.
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