You may already know this but if you look at rooftops there will not ever be mold or mildew down the slope of a roof below where the metal vents or pipes are. The rain water run off carries the zinc " galvanized " coating down the roof and it kills it.
If you have a mold or fungus on the roof you can spray the very top of the roof with zinc and it will eventually kill all of it for pennies.
The heaviest element our sun can produce, is Iron. Right before its death.
Iron is element 26.
Zinc is element 30.
For those that can't remember HS chemistry... that means Zinc cannot be formed in the sun, because it is HEAVIER atomically than Iron.
Now, for a while scientists have been saying those elements come from Supernova. Then they said, "special" supernova...
and now they think it might require a black hole to evaporate and disintegrate, to create all the elements needed for life.
That adds a problem to the Drake equation.
But the fact of the matter is this, if zinc is needed for life... at the very minimum, an entire star needed to go through an entire lifespan and be just the right size and just the right moment of death, explode, and cast enough material toward a gravity well, that has just enough hydrogen to spark an entirely new star, just for us to exist.
A supergiant star dies when it starts to fuse iron in it's core because when you get to iron you hit the point where it takes more energy to fuse the atoms then is created by the reaction.
You may already know this but if you look at rooftops there will not ever be mold or mildew down the slope of a roof below where the metal vents or pipes are. The rain water run off carries the zinc " galvanized " coating down the roof and it kills it. If you have a mold or fungus on the roof you can spray the very top of the roof with zinc and it will eventually kill all of it for pennies.
How bout this one...
The heaviest element our sun can produce, is Iron. Right before its death.
Iron is element 26.
Zinc is element 30.
For those that can't remember HS chemistry... that means Zinc cannot be formed in the sun, because it is HEAVIER atomically than Iron.
Now, for a while scientists have been saying those elements come from Supernova. Then they said, "special" supernova...
and now they think it might require a black hole to evaporate and disintegrate, to create all the elements needed for life.
That adds a problem to the Drake equation.
But the fact of the matter is this, if zinc is needed for life... at the very minimum, an entire star needed to go through an entire lifespan and be just the right size and just the right moment of death, explode, and cast enough material toward a gravity well, that has just enough hydrogen to spark an entirely new star, just for us to exist.
A supergiant star dies when it starts to fuse iron in it's core because when you get to iron you hit the point where it takes more energy to fuse the atoms then is created by the reaction.