{"id":33833,"date":"2021-08-02T18:03:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T23:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33833"},"modified":"2021-08-02T18:03:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T23:03:13","slug":"word-of-the-day-714","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/02\/word-of-the-day-714\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Kilonova<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even before such evidence emerged, back in 1974, David Schramm and James Lattimer at the University of Texas at Austin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/1974ApJ...192L.145L\/abstract\">proposed that a different cosmic smash-up might be the source of gold instead<\/a>. If what we need to make heavy elements is a lot of neutrons, then perhaps their origins involve neutron stars? These are incredibly dense balls of matter \u2013 mostly neutrons, as the name suggests \u2013 left behind after certain kinds of supernovae. Neutron stars often form in pairs, then spin around each other until eventually smashing together in a cataclysmic explosion called a kilonova. The tide of neutrons that results, reckoned Schramm and Lattimer, could be enough to kick-start the r-process. <em>[&#8220;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg25133440-800-how-is-gold-made-the-mysterious-cosmic-origins-of-heavy-elements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How is gold made? The mysterious cosmic origins of heavy elements<\/a><em>,&#8221; Sapphire Lally, <\/em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><em> (24 July 2021, paywall)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kilonova: Even before such evidence emerged, back in 1974, David Schramm and James Lattimer at the University of Texas at Austin\u00a0proposed that a different cosmic smash-up might be the source of gold instead. If what we need to make heavy elements is a lot of neutrons, then perhaps their origins \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/02\/word-of-the-day-714\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33834,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33833\/revisions\/33834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}