carbon burning

English

Noun

carbon burning (uncountable)

  1. (physics, astronomy) the nucleosynthesis process, in stars of greater than 8 solar mass that have exhausted their helium supply, in which carbon is converted to neon, sodium, magnesium and other elements
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