nucleosyntheticadj.
/ˌnjuːklɪə(ʊ)sɪnˈθɛtɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌn(j)uklioʊˌsɪnˈθɛdɪk/ Astronomy.
Of, relating to, or designating nucleosynthesis.
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1960 Physical Rev. Lett. 4 113/1 The nucleosynthetic processes during which iodine was made were instantaneous.
1973 Physics Bull. Nov. 652/1 This high percentage of helium apparently could not have been produced by the kind of nucleosynthetic processes currently occurring in stars.
1989 J. Silk Big Bang (rev. ed.) vii. 143 The early universe behaved much like a fusion bomb... The radiation field was so intense that it instantaneously destroyed the first nucleosynthetic products that might have formed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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