The instantaneous recycling approximation treats short-lived stars as returning their ejecta immediately after formation while long-lived stars retain their mass indefinitely. It turns delayed chemical enrichment into local differential equations.
The stellar yield is the newly synthesized metal mass returned to gas per unit mass locked into long-lived stars, under a specified recycling convention and initial mass function.

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