The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

[1] Iron isotope fractionation of redox and geochemical cycling in the typical Gleysols in Mun River Basin, Northeast Thailand. The Science of The Total Environment (2023).

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