Checked reel · 10 Oct 2026

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Elements heavier than iron, including silver and gold, cannot be forged inside normal stars like our Sun. The Sun mainly fuses hydrogen into helium, which does not produce enough pressure or neutron flow to create heavy metals. Most of the universe's silver was created through rapid neutron capture during kilonovae, which are violent collisions between neutron stars. These events spray thousands of Earth masses worth of heavy elements into space, which eventually mixed into the dust cloud that formed our solar system. 🪐

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