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That's a rather tenuous connection. Nearly everything on Earth is due to the physics of dying stars. Once could also ask why so many houses in Greece are white
by dalke 12y ago
That's a rather tenuous connection. Nearly everything on Earth is due to the physics of dying stars. Once could also ask why so many houses in Greece are white and blue, and the answer would also be "because of the physics of dying stars."
This article focused on iron. The Earth's crust has more oxygen by mass than iron, but that point was left out.
- sp332 12y agoIt mentions that the Red Ochre dye has 3 oxygen atoms for every 2 Iron atoms.
- pervycreeper 12y agoFurthermore, no explanation given for why the described fusion process stops at 53, and why heavier elements are also present on Earth.
- dredmorbius 12y agoNuclear binding energy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_binding_energy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_binding_energy Iron is at the top of the binding energy curve, and hence the bottom of the potential curve. Effectively, it's at the bottom of a hill with hydrogen on one (very) high side, and uranium and the trans-uranium elements on the other (less) high side.