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It is not specifically those elements which "produce stars". Whatever elements happen to be around clump together, through gravity, and form the star.
Nuclear Fusion
Stars play a variety of roles. First and foremost, the sun is a star. It provides the heat and light necessary for life of Earth. Stars also create most of the elements we find. Before stars started forming all matter in the universe consisted of hydrogen, helium, and trace amounts of lithium. All other elements have since been made in the thermonuclear furnaces of stars.
Produces is the verb.
Stars get light by the air.
That is called "nuclear fusion".
helium_and_hydrogen">helium and hydrogenThe process that produces elements in stars is called fusion. This is when its so hot that they atoms literally join together to make a whole different substance. Stars are like giant element factories.
Nuclear fusion is the process that produces energy in the stars, including our sun
It is not specifically those elements which "produce stars". Whatever elements happen to be around clump together, through gravity, and form the star.
Nuclear Fusion
fusion reactions in stars
Nucleosyntheis
Stars obtain energy through the majority of their lives by the process of thermonuclear fusion of the nuclei of light elements to produce nuclei of heavier elements. Initially the processes fuses hydrogen nuclei, producing helium nuclei (similar to what hydrogen bombs do), but the process ceases when it produces nickel and iron nuclei at which point the star begins dying as it has run out of nuclear fuel.
Stars play a variety of roles. First and foremost, the sun is a star. It provides the heat and light necessary for life of Earth. Stars also create most of the elements we find. Before stars started forming all matter in the universe consisted of hydrogen, helium, and trace amounts of lithium. All other elements have since been made in the thermonuclear furnaces of stars.
stars turn hydrogen into heavier elements in nuclear fusion. this process gives off light and heat.
The process of fusion, where hydrogen is fused into heavier elements, releasing energy in the process.
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