technetium star
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[edit]Noun
[edit]technetium star (plural technetium stars)
- (astrophysics) A star in which technetium has been detected. This is significant because technetium is too short-lived to occur primordially in the star, if the star is about 4.5 billion years old (the estimated age of the Earth), so the star must be producing technetium.