The periodic table, colour coded by the likely origin of each element
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Re: The periodic table, colour coded by the likely origin of each element
#2Based on Mineral Evolution [1] as popularized in the books and lectures of Robert M. Hazen [2].
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#3The image shown by wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_element seems more complete and better laid out, and is also by cmglee (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cmglee), based on data from Jennifer Johnson at Ohio State University (http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~jaj/nucleo/):
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Nucleosy...
Re: The periodic table, colour coded by the likely origin of each element
#4How did elements created by a merging neutron stars and dying low-mass stars get down to our planet?
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#5Wikipedia original:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_element#/media/File:N...
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#6As you walk your way down the table is there a correlation with elements being more “recycled” for lack of a better term?
Ie. H and He are the basest elements and then everything else is formed through increasing amount of processes? Having a hard time articulating this one.
Re: The periodic table, colour coded by the likely origin of each element
#7How did elements created by a merging neutron stars and dying low-mass stars get down to our planet?
Time? They had like 10 billion years to diffuse and propagate I guess...
Re: The periodic table, colour coded by the likely origin of each element
#8As you walk your way down the table is there a correlation with elements being more “recycled” for lack of a better term? Ie. H and He are the basest elements and then everything else is formed through increasing amount of processes? Having a hard time articulating this one.
It certainly makes sense: you need more complex machinery to form more complex elements.
Re: The periodic table, colour coded by the likely origin of each element
#9Here's a great resource for the basics from professor Anna Frebel at MIT: https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-8-007-cosmic-origin-of-the...
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#10For some completely irrational reason I was slightly disappointed that the gold in my wedding ring was only from a neutron star merger and probably not from a supernova.
However, reading the relevant wikipedia page I came across this part:
"this single neutron star merger event generated between 3 and 13 Earth masses of gold"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Gold_production_in_the_Un...
Can't wait to refer to that in the next discussion on HN about gold as a store of value.... ;-)