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Gold

Z: 79
Mass: 196.967
Lifeforce: Earth

Every gram of gold on Earth comes from the collision of two neutron stars, and waited 4.5 billion years for hands to find it. It receives nothing, gives nothing. It simply is.

A terraced slope with laid stone foundations and visible roots; a figure sets a stone in place. — Plate · Earth Earth never hurries. It *holds*, stone by stone, whatever is meant to last.

Born in the collision of two neutron stars, far older than our solar system. Your ring is the residue of a cosmic catastrophe.

Lab note · Forms in no ordinary star; far older than our solar system.

Tool · Cosmic origin

Where your atoms come from

Au · Neutron stars

Forged in the collision of neutron stars, among the rarest events in the cosmos. Older than the Sun.

8 of the 118 elements share this origin.

Choose a stage: click, or arrow keys. · Cosmic nucleosynthesis · current standard model

Tool · Periodic table

Your place in the system

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