Timeline for answer to Is there a way to create a bomb to destroy a star? by user18267
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| Jul 19, 2018 at 23:03 | comment | added | Ghedipunk | To put a little bit more plainly what Thucydides is saying: It's not the presence of iron that destroys a star. It's the star itself making iron that destroys it. Iron is the main "ash" of a supernova. It's not the ash itself that started the fire, fire is the chemical process that creates ash. Just as it's not iron that causes stars to go supernova, it's the nuclear fusion process that creates iron that causes a star to go boom. | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 20:22 | comment | added | Thucydides | Actually Iron is at the peak (or trough) of the curve of binding energy, fusing iron or fissioning it provides no net energy. When the stellar core is fusing materials like carbon, silicon and oxygen into iron, there is no more fusion energy using back against the gravitational energy of the star, and the star implodes. | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 18:03 | comment | added | flies | This isn't right. Iron doesn't absorb energy - it's just you can't get out of it by fusion. So you're simply adding something that isn't fuel. | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 7:08 | comment | added | The Nate | Sooo, you're saying an electromagnet should serve? | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 5:43 | history | edited | SE - stop firing the good guys | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 4:55 | history | answered | user18267 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |