• The carbon-burning process or carbon fusion is a set of nuclear fusion reactions that take place in the cores of massive stars (at least 4 M ⊙ {\displaystyle...
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  • 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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    most commonly in brown dwarfs Carbon-burning process Neon-burning process Oxygen-burning process Silicon-burning process Production of elements heavier...
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    triple-alpha process is a set of nuclear fusion reactions by which three helium-4 nuclei (alpha particles) are transformed into carbon. Helium accumulates...
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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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    ingredient in many processes in industrial chemistry. The most common source of carbon monoxide is the partial combustion of carbon-containing compounds...
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    to fuse carbon (see Carbon-burning process). This process continues, with the successive stages being fueled by neon (see neon-burning process), oxygen...
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    dredge-up) after the carbon and other products were made. Normally this kind of AGB carbon star fuses hydrogen in a hydrogen burning shell, but in episodes...
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    Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a process by which carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial installations is separated before it is released into the...
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    on Earth; its abundance is due to the triple-alpha process by which it is created in stars. Carbon-12 is of particular importance in its use as the standard...
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    pressures needed to cause the carbon in the core to begin to fuse when the star contracts at the end of the helium-burning stage. The core gradually becomes...
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  • nickel. 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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    but only 23Na is stable. 23Na is created in the carbon-burning process in stars by fusing two carbon atoms together; this requires temperatures above...
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    atmosphere, carbon dioxide is a trace gas that plays an integral part in the greenhouse effect, carbon cycle, photosynthesis and oceanic carbon cycle. It...
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    Carbon steel is a steel with carbon content from about 0.05 up to 2.1 percent by weight. The definition of carbon steel from the American Iron and Steel...
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    first part of a larger process, the CNO-cycle, and the main reactions in this part of the cycle (CNO-I) are: where the carbon-12 nucleus used in the first...
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    Alpha 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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    20Ne (90.48%) is created by the nuclear fusion of carbon and carbon in the carbon-burning process of stellar nucleosynthesis. This requires temperatures...
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  • follows the previous stages of hydrogen, helium, carbon, neon and oxygen burning processes. Silicon burning begins when gravitational contraction raises the...
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    Coke (fuel) (category Allotropes of carbon)
    Coke is a grey, hard, and porous coal-based fuel with a high carbon content. It is made by heating coal or petroleum in the absence of air. Coke is an...
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    Red giant (redirect from Shell burning)
    into carbon in their cores via the triple-alpha process asymptotic-giant-branch (AGB) stars with a helium burning shell outside a degenerate carbon–oxygen...
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    Soot (redirect from Carbon buildup)
    term includes all the particulate matter produced by this process, including black carbon and residual pyrolysed fuel particles such as coal, cenospheres...
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    the change from the year 2000. The data only consider carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and cement manufacture, but not emissions...
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    and 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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    Pyrolysis (category Chemical processes)
    engines, unlike syngas. The process is used heavily in the chemical industry, for example, to produce ethylene, many forms of carbon, and other chemicals from...
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    Charcoal (redirect from Charcoal burning)
    version of this pyrolysis process, called charcoal burning, often by forming a charcoal kiln, the heat is supplied by burning part of the starting material...
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  • 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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  • immense amount of energy as the star is blown apart. The carbon detonation/deflagration process leads to a supernova by a different route than the better...
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    the change from the year 2000. The data only consider carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and cement manufacture, but not emissions...
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    from 1751 to 2008 about 347 gigatonnes of carbon were released as carbon dioxide to the atmosphere from burning of fossil fuels. Another source puts the...
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