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Tree-farmer2 t1_j5xdiny wrote on January 26, 2023 at 5:19 AM

Reply to comment by MrGate in Factory that uses nuclear fusion to make heavier elements by DEATH_CORNER

Good point.

These larger elements are created in supernovae and neutron star mergers when nuclei absorb a bunch of extra neutrons, some of which beta decay into protons, and voila you have larger elements than iron. Maybe we'll find that strategy is better than fusion for this purpose.