Talk:Convective overturn
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From the second para: "This point produces heavier elements as the neutrinos are absorbed." The nuclei that absorb high energy neutrinos aren't any more massive, but they are of higher atomic number: Neutrino absorption ejects an electron from a neutron, thereby converting the neutron into a proton. The electron is too fast moving to be recaptured, so the mass-equivelence of the nucleus itself actually decreases.
