Talk:Nucleosynthesis

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Is fission actually considered to be a form of nucleosynthesis? It seems odd that it would be, since it's primarily a form of, if you will, "nucleoclasis". --Smack (talk) 17:07, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Fission is used primarily in cosmic ray spallation, which can use either fusion or fission. New nuclei are just created (or synthesized as the name implies) from splitting a larger one. →ubεr nεmo→ ^lóquï 18:35, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Explosive Nucleosynthesis is a type of Stellar Nucleosynthesis

Currently this page describes 4 types of nucleosynthesis, which I believe should be reduced to 3 types. Namely, explosive nucleosynthesis is a type of stellar nucleosynthesis. It is a very important type of nucleosynthesis, and I do not wish to delete any content from here, only move around things and reduce the number of categories. In the field of nuclear astrophysics, it is standard to do this. In fact, you will note that under the categorization of nuclear processes, we have many explosive stellar nucleosynthesis phenomena listed under stellar nucleosynthesis as they should be (like rp-, p-, s-, r-processes). Furthermore, big bang nucleosynthesis is technically explosive nucleosynthesis, just it is not stellar in origin, and I think making this change clears up possible confusion about that matter.

However, before I make this change, I wanted to get input as to how to best accomplish this task. Furthermore, the supernova nucleosynthesis page is actually larger than, and has more information than the r-process page, and I think this needs some correcting. DAID 05:41, 19 July 2007 (UTC)