The metallicity of a star or of a gas is its content of elements heavier than helium, called metals in astronomy whatever their chemistry: as a mass fraction , or, as it is usually measured, as the iron abundance relative to the Sun, . A star with has a tenth of the Sun’s iron per hydrogen atom.
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