In case you wondered - Where did all the elements come from?

[packman]

More with a higher res table and info at:

http://www.sciencealert.com/this-awesome-periodic-table-shows-the-origins-of-every-atom-in-your-body

[byronius]

1. I'm just reading Laurence Krausse's 'Atom', which is a freakishly intense detailing of the process.

Changes my whole perspective. My god. What a story.

We only exist because of a slight oddity in the laws of physics that produced one more proton than anti-proton out of each million protons produced in the first few minutes of existence. Without that weird tweak, the universe would be nothing but radiation.

It's the Greatest Story Ever Told.

[lapucelle]

2. This is amazing!

I'm forwarding it to every science geek I know. What's the source?

[packman]

3. Made more available in original post - but

here more - the source and some more info

http://www.sciencealert.com/this-awesome-periodic-table-shows-the-origins-of-every-atom-in-your-body

[snooper2]

5. How the Universe Works

http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/how-the-universe-works/

[tibbiit]

4. That was great!

Thanks for posting. Very easy to understand the importance of this table... what it means, from this article.
thanks
tib

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Interesting to note that of the beneficial trace elements, only Mo and I fall below the 4th row ...

Apparently, the evolution of life did not need to wait on merging neutron stars to incubate the necessary ingredients, although:

In 2008, evidence was reported that a scarcity of molybdenum in the Earth's early oceans was a limiting factor for nearly two billion years in the further evolution of eukaryotic life (which includes all plants and animals). The chain of causation is as follows:[68]

1. The relative lack of oxygen in the early ocean resulted in a scarcity in dissolved molybdenum. Most molybdenum compounds have low solubility in water, but the molybdate ion MoO42? is soluble and forms when molybdenum-containing minerals are in contact with oxygen and water.
2. The lack of dissolved molybdenum limited the growth of prokaryotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria, which require molybdenum-bearing enzymes for the process
3. The lack of prokaryotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria limited the growth of ocean eukaryotes, which require oxidized nitrogen suitable for the production of organic nitrogen compounds or the organics themselves (like proteins) from prokaryotic bacteria.[69][70][71]

However, once oxygen had been created in seawater by the limited eukaryotes, it reacted with water and the molybdenum in minerals on the sea bottom to produce soluble molybdate, making it available to nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Those bacteria provided fixed usable nitrogen compounds for higher forms of life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molybdenum#Biological_role

[Nitram]

7. eppur, that is fascinating. Thanks for the info.

The influence that living things have had on the physical world never ceases to amaze me. Gaia rules!