Radioactivity

Don't forget that nuclear fusion happens in stars (not fission). Fusion creates heavy elements from lighter elements.

All elements heavier than Uranium (that is, with numbers larger than 92) are man-made.

Many were made by Glenn Seaborg at Lawrence Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley.

http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/physlist.html

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