Yeah, I've been wondering about that "product of production and dispersal" thing for various elements for many years now (mostly because of Fermi paradox), but don't have as many useful tools for doing so as you probably do.
Mostly it has been an occasional search for freely available papers on nucleosynthesis that use the word "kinetics" in its chemistry sense, but in the context of nucleosynthesis (and dispersal) rather than chemistry. Doesn't come up much, as I'm not sure the chemistry sense of "kinetics" has crossed over into nucleosynthesis astrophysics at all. Few seem to think there is enough data gathered yet for anyone to have firm opinions about such things anyway, is the conclusion that I've drawn so far.
Oh, yeah, and metallicity gradients! Finding out what I could about metallicity gradients was the most fruitful course for a while, but it turns out not that much is really known about them yet. I mean, all the theories are controversial. The galaxy people get very uptight about them.
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Date: 2020-12-11 02:16 am (UTC)Mostly it has been an occasional search for freely available papers on nucleosynthesis that use the word "kinetics" in its chemistry sense, but in the context of nucleosynthesis (and dispersal) rather than chemistry. Doesn't come up much, as I'm not sure the chemistry sense of "kinetics" has crossed over into nucleosynthesis astrophysics at all. Few seem to think there is enough data gathered yet for anyone to have firm opinions about such things anyway, is the conclusion that I've drawn so far.
Oh, yeah, and metallicity gradients! Finding out what I could about metallicity gradients was the most fruitful course for a while, but it turns out not that much is really known about them yet. I mean, all the theories are controversial. The galaxy people get very uptight about them.