When your sun forges iron...

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From: Kenneth Freeman
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:25

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I've often read that iron is the proximate cause of novas, iron
being the last atomic ash, so to speak. Why iron in particular? 
I'd appreciate a good QM explanation of why your usual stellar
furnace blows upon trying to produce energy from Fe!

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Subject: When your sun forges iron...
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