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Star Stuff

from Star Stuff by Chris Harris

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Everything begins with hydrogen.

In the first few millions of years after the Big Bang, that's pretty much all there was, anywhere. This song gives the recepe for what happened next; you have to smoosh hydrogen nuclei together inside a star to get any of the heavier elements, and thanks to something called binding energy, even that process stops working by the time you're making atoms of iron (which really isn't that heavy an element).

To get the heavier stuff, you literally have to blow up a star. More on that later...

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Hydrogen.

It all begins with hydrogen.

Hydrogen plus hydrogen gives heliium
Helium plus helium plus helium gives carbon
Carbon plus helium gives oxygen
Oxygen plus helium gives neon

Everything's made from star stuff
Everything's made from star stuff

Neon plus helium gives magnesium
Magnesium plus helium gives silicon
Silicon plus helium gives sulphur
Sulphur plus helium gives argon

Neon fusion takes a year
Silicon, a day

Argon plus helium gives calcium
Calcium plus helium gives titanium
Titanium plus helium gives chromium
Chromium plus helium gives iron

Iron is the ash
that's left from burnt-out stars

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from Star Stuff, released July 3, 2022

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Chris Harris Bristol, UK

I'm still trying to get the music I record to sound like the version I can hear in my head. To do this I've ended up playing every instrument I can get my hands on. These days, I'm closer to "That Sound" than I used to be, but the journey continues.

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