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title text: It can be expensive to hire a professional spectroscopist for your wedding, but the quality of the spectra you get is worth it.

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Sam Levine

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3 panel comic.

1. No hair holding something shiny says "It kinda makes sense that we use gold for wedding rings."

2. No hair says: "Because a lot of the universe's gold was probably produced by R-process nucleosynthesis when pairs of neutron stars spiraled together and merged. So gold exists because two neutron stars got married."

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Sam Levine

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3. Short hair says "Binary Neutron Star Merger would be a fun wedding theme." No hair replies "Everyone has to try not to catch the relativistically ejected bouquet."

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Vinay ಕಶ್ಯಪ್ (Mr./Dr.)

@xkcdbot As a professional spectroscopist, albeit of the non-neutron star variety whose bouquets only make nice aurorae, I fully endorse this message.

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