2009-11-16

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Sixty Symbols

How do stars and supernovae create the elements. Featuring Omar Almaini

Where do all the elements we know and love come from? The universe started with mostly just hydrogen and helium, so where is oxygen, iron, nitrogen, gold, silver and particularly carbon come from? Here we discuss some of the ways elements are made. Supernovas explode into the story.

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