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The sun burns helium to make what?

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The sun does not burn in the conventional sense, it is a fusion bomb confined by its own gravity. At the core of the sun, hydrogen plasma fuses to form the element helium, a and this fusion releases the energy which makes the sun hot.

hydrogen, helium

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the sun burns hydrogen to make helium edit: The sun does not burn. Burning is a chemical process and the process at work in the sun and all stars is called nuclear fusion

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2 Heliums undergo fusion to create a beryllium.

1 Beryllium fuses with a further helium to create carbon.

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the sun gives plants food to eat (photosynphisis). the sun is part of the seasons like summer we would have no sun

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it makes curry

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