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Unlike an Iron Age collapse, a Bronze Age collapse releases energy, since copper and tin are past the iron peak on the curve of binding energy.
xkxd #2860: Decay Modes
Alt text:
Unlike an Iron Age collapse, a Bronze Age collapse releases energy, since copper and tin are past the iron peak on the curve of binding energy.
10 Comments
FrullaPapaya@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
I don't know how many of those are legit and how many are humorous
palordrolap@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y
First row is real. Second row, not so much.
That said, the "one big nucleon" is pretty close in concept to a neutron star. It needs a few more nucleons than there are in a single atom though. Just a few. And it's not really a decay mode as it is a gravitational effect.
It's also kind of reminiscent of superatoms - clusters of atoms that act like one single atom - but that is very much not the same. (The nuclei aren't fused. They maintain regular, sensible, atomic distances. Electrons are free to pass between. etc.)
ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
What do you mean? They're all completely real
Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Can you prove that the collapse due to the invasion of the sea people isn't real? Until you can, I fully accept it as a real type of decay.
A_A@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
Electron capture is neat and there is also :
Double electron capture
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_electron_capture
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 2y
holy shit electron capture 2
randomaccount43543@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
https://explainxkcd.com/2860
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 2y
altphoto@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 318d
Titanium goes....
Ironically...
Silverically...
Strontium, barium etc say what?
bluemoon@piefed.social · 1 pts · 310d
late-stage capitalist decay... rotting into outright authoritarianism...