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How are heavy elements made?

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by smashing lighter elements together head-on in an accelerator and hoping you can detect their decay a few picoseconds later and tell it from the general debris of the collision.

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Using nuclear reactors or particle accelerators

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Stellar nucleosynthesis. Elements up to iron are made in the cores of very massive stars; elements heavier than iron are produced in supernova explosions.

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Superheavy chemical elements are created by nuclear reactions.
Several examples are: mendelevium, nobelium, hassium, meitnerium etc.

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dudes create them. beleive me, i know.

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