What is the origin of gold, silver, platinum? Credit: © alexphoto71 / Fotolia
The origin of many of the most precious elements on the periodic table, such as gold, silver and platinum, has perplexed scientists for >6 decades. Now a recent study has an answer, evocatively conveyed in the faint starlight from a distant dwarf galaxy. In a roundtable discussion The Kavli Foundation spoke to 2 of the researchers behind the discovery about why the source of these heavy elements, collectively called “r-process” elements, has been so hard to crack.
“Understanding how heavy, r-process elements are formed is one of hardest problems in nuclear physics,” said Assistant/Prof Anna Frebel, MIT...
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