Meaning: Use up, consume fully. Classified under: Verbs of eating and drinking. Synonyms: expend; use. Context example: The legislature expended its time on school questions Expend entails doing...: consume; deplete; eat; eat up; exhaust; run through; use up; wipe out (use up (resources or materials)) Troponyms (each of the following is one way to expend):
Supernova nucleosynthesis. Supernova nucleosynthesis is a theory of the production of many different chemical elements in supernova explosions, first advanced by Fred Hoyle in 1954. The nucleosynthesis, or fusion of lighter elements into heavier ones, occurs during explosive oxygen burning and silicon burning processes. Those fusion reactions create the elements silicon, sulfur, chlorine, argon, sodium, potassium, calcium, scandium, titanium and iron peak elements: vanadium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, and nickel.
Astrophysicists have believed that half the elements which are heavier than iron were formed in gigantic star explosions, known as supernovas. However, there is one little snag with this theory: Astrophysicists have huge problems to make computer simulations of a supernova.âA supernova is extremely complicated.ew insight into the behavior of atomic nuclei may explain how gigantic star explosions, or supernovae, have formed the elements that are crucial to mankind.