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| Sep 24, 2015 at 6:05 | comment | added | ProfRob | Sorry to be a bore, but your sentence about supernovae is a bit loose. Heavier elements can be produced by neutron capture (obviously endothermically) without a supernova. And indeed it is thought about half of them are. See physics.stackexchange.com/questions/7131/… | |
| Sep 24, 2015 at 3:07 | comment | added | anna v | @Gotaquestion just saw this . no need for more precision. if you see the position of lithium in the binding energy curve the energy balances work. | |
| Oct 3, 2013 at 17:01 | comment | added | Gotaquestion | Generally that is correct, but I believe there is an extra level of details. There are some exothermic fission reactions in which elements lighter than Fe release energy in fission reaction. For example a neutron hitting Lithium-6 generates Tritium, alpha particle and 4.7 MeV. So there has to be more precise rules | |
| Oct 3, 2013 at 16:51 | history | answered | Nephente | CC BY-SA 3.0 |