How are gold and other elements created?

Question

How are elements such as gold created and why can’t humans creat

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

Some big, fat stars go boom when they grow old. In the explosion the gas they’re made of transforms into all kinds of stuff, like carbon, oxygen and even gold, and is spread through the universe. Billions of years later that stuff becomes othe, snaller stars, plants, animals and even you.

Yes, you. You and me are made of star stuff.