The Cosmic Perspective Fundamentals (2nd Edition)
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18.Element Production in the big bang. Nucleosynthesus in the early universe was unable to produced more than trace amount of elements heavier than helium.using the information in figure 9.19,which shows the number of protons per nuclear particle for many different elements ,explain why producing elements like Helium (3 protons), Boron (4 protons), and beryllium (5 protons) was so difficult.
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