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stellar nucleosynthesis

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stellar nucleosynthesis

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process by which the natural abundances of the chemical elements within stars change due to nuclear fusion reactions in the cores and their overlying mantles

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Encyclopedic overview

Logarithmic scales plot of the relative energy output (ε) of the following fusion processes at different temperatures (T):   Proton–proton chain (PP)

CNO cycle

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “stellar nucleosynthesis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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