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technetium star

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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A star in which technetium has been detected. Technetium is too short-lived to occur primordially in the star, if the star is about 4.5 billion years old (the estimated age of the Earth), so the star must be producing technetium.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: astrophysics

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