their cores. Oxygen-burning is preceded by the neon-burning process and succeeded by the silicon-burning process. As the neon-burning process ends, the core...
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previous stages of hydrogen, helium, carbon, neon and oxygen burning processes. Silicon burning begins when gravitational contraction raises the star's...
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The neon-burning process is a set of nuclear fusion reactions that take place in evolved massive stars with at least 8 Solar masses. Neon burning requires...
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Stellar nucleosynthesis (redirect from Hydrogen-burning process)
commonly in brown dwarfs Carbon-burning process Neon-burning process Oxygen-burning process Silicon-burning process Production of elements heavier than...
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carbon-burning process pretty well, despite some of it being used up by capturing 4He nuclei. So the result of carbon burning is a mixture mainly of oxygen,...
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helium-4 to make oxygen-16. The neon-burning process also makes it. Oxygen-16 is doubly magic. Solid samples (organic and inorganic) for oxygen-16 studies are...
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the asymptotic giant branch, carbon and oxygen accumulate in the core as helium is burned, while hydrogen burning shifts to further-out layers, resulting...
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Supernova nucleosynthesis (section Silicon burning)
during sequential hydrostatic burning processes called helium burning, carbon burning, oxygen burning, and silicon burning, in which the byproducts of one...
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Oxygen evolution is the process of generating molecular oxygen (O2) by a chemical reaction, usually from water. Oxygen evolution from water is effected...
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of sustaining burning process, and the powerful oxidant properties. Due to that, oxygen has become widely used in the metal processing, welding, cutting...
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Oxygen is a chemical element with the symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group in the periodic table, a highly reactive nonmetal...
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Carbon-burning process). This process continues, with the successive stages being fueled by neon (see neon-burning process), oxygen (see oxygen-burning process)...
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an explosive oxygen-burning process. These are nuclear fusion reactions, not to be confused with chemical burning of potassium in oxygen. 40 K is also...
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produced in stars during the alpha process and the oxygen-burning process, and drives the silicon-burning process in massive stars shortly before they...
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There are three known stable isotopes of oxygen (8O): 16 O , 17 O , and 18 O . Radioactive isotopes ranging from 11 O to 28 O have also been characterized...
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produced in Type Ia supernovae through the oxygen-burning process, with 28Si being made as part of the alpha process and hence the most abundant. The fusion...
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enough to allow a shorter phase of helium fusion, which produces carbon and oxygen, and accounts for less than 10% of the star's total lifetime. In stars of...
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The paper did not include the carbon-burning process, the oxygen-burning process and the silicon-burning process, each of which contribute to the elements...
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Thermal lance (redirect from Burning bar)
lance, thermic lance, oxygen lance, or burning bar is a tool that heats and melts steel in the presence of pressurized oxygen to create very high temperatures...
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An oxygen sensor (or lambda sensor, where lambda refers to air–fuel equivalence ratio, usually denoted by λ) or probe or sond, is an electronic device...
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Combustion (redirect from Burning)
or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that...
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Oxy-fuel welding and cutting (redirect from Oxygen gas torch)
oxy-fuel cutting are processes that use fuel gases (or liquid fuels such as gasoline or petrol, diesel, biodiesel, kerosene, etc) and oxygen to weld or cut...
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CNO cycle (redirect from Carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle)
The CNO cycle (for carbon–nitrogen–oxygen; sometimes called Bethe–Weizsäcker cycle after Hans Albrecht Bethe and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker) is one...
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largely inert core of carbon and oxygen, a shell where helium is undergoing fusion to form carbon (known as helium burning), another shell where hydrogen...
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lead to physical damage, which can be permanent, through burning. Fire is a significant process that influences ecological systems worldwide. The positive...
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Si and Ca are purely alpha process elements. Mg can be separately consumed by proton capture reactions. The status of oxygen (O) is contested – some authors...
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modified by a controlled pyrolysis process of wood being heated to (> 180 °C) in an oxygen free atmosphere. This process changes to the chemical structures...
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Corpse decomposition (section Oxygen availability)
factors. Environmental factors include temperature, burning, humidity, and the availability of oxygen. Other factors include body size, clothing, and the...
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process Triple-alpha process Proton–proton chain reaction Helium flash CNO cycle Lithium burning Carbon-burning process Neon-burning process Oxygen-burning...
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Steelmaking (section Basic oxygen)
heavy industry. Today there are two major commercial processes for making steel, namely basic oxygen steelmaking, which has liquid pig-iron from the blast...
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