The gold in human jewelry boxes and dental work traces back to neutron star collisions that scattered heavy elements across the galaxy long before Earth existed. The wedding band on a human finger is older than the Sun. So is the gold filling in a back molar, the chain on a great-grandmother’s pendant, and the platinum prongs holding a diamond in place. The atoms themselves were forged in an event so violent ... [8181 chars]
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