I know all about neutron reactions; it's just easier to get HYGN using electrolysis and easier still by mixing ACID with LITH.  And your making HYGN from electrons and neutrons made from photons, so technically my statement still stands.  I opt for obtaining OXYG from electrolysis and mixing HYGN with DESL in a recycling unit to make more WATR to perpetuate the process.

It's easier than thermonuclear fusion.

Some production chains, not all but some, can only start with raw elements (elements that can't be made via reactions), like EXOT production; sometimes I just happen to use those kinds of prodution chains and there's nothing wrong or boring with that.  Could I have synthesized DESL?  Yes, but I wanted the recycling unit to be smaller; I'm all for complex factories in tpt but I have to draw the line somewhere.  If you want to avoid using clone variants whenever possible, you be my guest.  But some elements, like EXOT, can only be synthesized by raw elements, and that's when clone variants or anything that functions like clone variants (such as CRAY and DRAY used to make endless elements) are necessary.  You don't have to make factories like that, but other people, including myself, have chosen to do so.  Not being able to make an ISTO production chain without clone variants is not a good reason not to implement these elements.  I was just trying to suggest some elements I thought would be cool and instead I find myself in an argument over nothing.  And nobody else who uses clone variants in their prodution chains even came in and tried to back me up on this.  Did anyone even see the part where I actually found a way to implement electromagnetism into tpt that wasn't just a copy of the newtonian gravity engine, or the part where I made my case about how BHOL and SING should be immune to virus?  Nobody's even infecting them with virus; it won't break saves.  If all that's gonna happen of this thread is arguing then let's just lock this thread.