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this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2025
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also unless you're dissipating much more heat out at lower temperature, it won't even work as a heatsink because otherwise it goes pretty directly against second law of thermodynamics
if i'm looking at this right, for copper alpha capture is actually still exothermic (by 3.7MeV and 4.4MeV for 63Cu and 65Cu respectively). it's different from alpha process, because in alpha process whatever comes after calcium is two or more beta plus decays away from stable, that is there's already too many protons and next alpha capture only makes it worse, and it all happens too fast for these decays to happen. it's equilibrium process anyway at that point, but barriers are so large it probably doesn't matter