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Nearly all the elements found in our environment were formed inside stars. The major exceptions are:?

Nearly all the elements found in our environment were formed inside stars. The major exceptions are: a) Iron and nickel., b) Oxygen and carbon., c) Silver and technetium., d) Hydrogen and helium.

Update:

Hey genius Edward Sharp,

I read the textbook, the answer was not in there. Perhaps you should get a life? Or mind your own business? Didn't your mommy tell you if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything at all? Have fun fondling your textbooks.

Thank you to those who answered the question, I was pretty sure it was Hydrogen and Helium, but was just seeing if others thought the same. Thank you!

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Read your text. Do your OWN homework. Or use a search engine. (But, I'll bet your text will be quicker and more accurate for your purposes.) Spoon-fed information gives one a head full of mush.

    And make sure you understand the question before you accept the answers given around here. No one's going to suffer from wrong answers except you, my friend.

    Find out what nuclear fusion products are forming throughout a star's life-cycle. A hint: elements which go too far beyond exothermic fusion reactions won't happen inside a star. Remember, I said too far.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    D) Hydrogen and Helium which were formed just after the Big Bang. Helium is produced in stars, but the majority in the Universe is "primoridal".

  • 1 decade ago

    D)

    Hydrogen and Helium were produced by the big bang and are used by stars as the "fuel" to create all heavier elements.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    i'm not effective if this is a trick question. i imagine the answer is D. Hydrogen, helium, and deuterium were suspected to have existed before the first stars shaped. a megastar fuses hydrogen into helium, and later in existence, fuses helium into heavier aspects. yet can't fuse something into iron. the elements heavier than Iron were shaped in supernova explosions of stars, and were not actually created "interior" of stars (technically).

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  • 1 decade ago

    Hint: which are the lightest of all those elements?

  • Tom S
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    d) a little lithium too.

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