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Elements and Compounds
Element transformed in solar fusion?
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October 31, 2010 4:37AM
Our sun mostly transforms hydrogen nuclei into helium by fusion, but it also fuses helium with helium, lithium with hydrogen, and beryllium with hydrogen, to make elements as heavy as boron.
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Asked in Nuclear Energy
What element transformed in solar fusion?

Our sun produces mostly helium by fusion, but it also uses
fusion to make lithium, beryllium and boron. Temperature and mass
determine how far a star can go with fusion. "Solar fusion" only
refers to the fusion going on in Sol, the star nearest Earth (our
star, the sun). Stellar nucleosynthesis is how elements are
produced in stars, and in much larger & hotter stars fusion is
responsible for elements as heavy as unstable zinc, or stable
iron.
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