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Stellar nucleosynthesis and what it relates to. Every line is an evidence-backed relation, and the arrangement is fixed — this address draws this picture, today and next year.

concerns — The 1957 review organised element production into the process taxonomy still used today.part_of — Hydrogen burning is the first and longest-running of the nuclear processes that build the elements inside stars.constrained_by — Fusion releases energy only up to the iron-nickel binding-energy peak, so everything heavier must be built by neutron capture instead.part_of — Rapid neutron capture is one of the processes B2FH identified, and the only route to roughly half the elements heavier than iron.The iron peak in nuclear binding energyThe iron peak in nuclear …B2FH sets out the synthesis of the elements in starsB2FH sets out the synthes…Hydrogen fusion: the proton-proton chain and the CNO cycleHydrogen fusion: the prot…Stellar nucleosynthesisStellar nucleosynthesisRapid neutron capture (the r-process)Rapid neutron capture (th…
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  1. B2FH sets out the synthesis of the elements in stars · concerns · Stellar nucleosynthesis

    The 1957 review organised element production into the process taxonomy still used today.

  2. Hydrogen fusion: the proton-proton chain and the CNO cycle · part_of · Stellar nucleosynthesis

    Hydrogen burning is the first and longest-running of the nuclear processes that build the elements inside stars.

  3. Stellar nucleosynthesis · constrained_by · The iron peak in nuclear binding energy

    Fusion releases energy only up to the iron-nickel binding-energy peak, so everything heavier must be built by neutron capture instead.

  4. Rapid neutron capture (the r-process) · part_of · Stellar nucleosynthesis

    Rapid neutron capture is one of the processes B2FH identified, and the only route to roughly half the elements heavier than iron.