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

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For the fundamental isotope hydrogen, which contains only a single proton, several very neutron-rich isotopes from ⁴H to ⁷H have been observed beyond the well-known deuteron and triton. Setup of the ...

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Lithium 6 (an isotope of lithium with three protons and three neutrons) may be used too. It combines with tritium to give two helium nuclei plus a free neutron.

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For example, carbon occurs naturally in three isotopes: carbon-12, which has six neutrons (plus six protons equals 12; hence the number), carbon-13, which has seven neutrons, and carbon-14, which ...

This isotope is commonly found in the world’s oceans, making up one atom out of every 6,500 hydrogen atoms. On the other hand, tritium, which contains two spare neutrons, is much harder to find.