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"The third dredge-up brings helium, carbon, and the s-process products to the surface," (emphasis added)

In the early universe, stars had so little in the way of "seeds" for the s-process to act on that the few seeds that were there absorbed large numbers of neutrons, eventually producing weird stars highly enriched in lead (the end point of the s-process). These stars have been detected from lead (and bismuth) in their spectra.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_star





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