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What it a process in which lighter elements stick together to create heavier elements?
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The process in which lighter elements stick together to create heavier elements is known as fusion. This is the process that will be used in the synthesis of a heavier atomic nuclei.
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A process that occurs when a heavier sea plate dives beneath a lighter continental plate?
Subduction :D I'm barley 14
What is the process where a heavier sea plate dives beneath a lighter continental plate is called?
an example of this is the marinas trench of the coast of japan and the continental plate of the Philippine's. the more denser oceanic plate is forced under by the lighter continental plate. this normally happens at destructive plate margins.
Process that is the source of the suns energy?
The Sun's energy comes from nuclear fusion where hydrogen is slammed together with so much force that 4 hydrogen atoms will fuse together to form one helium atom. Nuclear fusion releases incredible amounts of heat energy. Other larger stars fuse the heavier elements when they collapse and then explode. This is called a super nova.
What are the elements of a opsec threat?
There are many opsec threats and how you can deal with it. Opsec is a process of protecting pieces of information and grouping them together to make a big picture.
How do solutions of water elements and compounds that can crystallize into a mineral form deep underground?
Over time, minerals are created by elements bonding together to form other solutions. Since they are underground, there is nothing disrupts the process, which gives nature enough time to let the elements bond.
What process turns a star into energy?
Nuclear fusion, of lighter elements onto heavier elements.
What process turns a star matter into energy?
Nuclear fusion, of lighter elements onto heavier elements.
What is the nuclear process that converts helium and hydrogen from lighter to heavier elements?
Nuclear fusion reaction
Which process combines lighter elements into heavier elements and produces energy within the sun and other stars?
That is called "nuclear fusion".
What nuclear process coverts helium and hydrogen gases from lighter to heavier elements?
The process is called fusion; hydrogen nuclei are fused together to make helium. At much higher temperatures and pressures, the helium can fuse into carbon and nitrogen and oxygen.
What is the process called when atoms join together?
If you mean covalent bonding...well then they bonded.
What is the process of heavier plates moving under lighter plates called?
Subduction!
What is nuclear fusion in astronomy?
It's the process that takes place in the cores of stars, creating heavier elements out of lighter ones, and liberating nuclear energy that leaves the stars in the form of electromagnetic radiation.
What nuclear process occurred when light elements combine to form heavier elements?
Nuclear Fusion
What happens during a fusion?
Atoms of a 'lighter' element collide and 'stick' together to make a heavier element. The most notable reaction, takes place in stars. Where Hydrogen fuses to make Helium, in the process energy is produced. Further fusion then takes place, to make other elements
What process do stars use to produce light?
Stars emit light through a process called "nuclear fusion", sometimes called "thermonuclear fusion". This should not be confused with "nuclear fission", the process used in nuclear power plants to produce electricity. In nuclear fission, the radioactive substance decays to a substance of lower atomic number (through bombardment of its nucleas), releasing considerable heat in the process. In nuclear fusion, the nuclei combine to form a substance of higher atomic number, again releasing considerable heat in the process.
Are elements formed by years of compression under the earths crust?
No.All elements (since the creation of the Universe) are formed by either combining two lighter elements in to a heavier one (called nuclear fusion) or by splitting a heavy element into 2 (or more) lighter ones (called nuclear fission).It is believed that at the creation of the Universe mostly hydrogen (and some helium) was present. Hydrogen is by far the most common element. These are the two lightest elements. Inside stars these elements are fused together to form heavier elements. Our very own Sun, for example, fuses hydrogen atoms together to form helium. This process releases energy in the form of heat and light.A star is able to do this due to the tremendous heat and pressure within it. There are different types of stars, and some have even more staggeringly high pressures inside them allowing them to fuse together and form heavier elements than helium. It is believed that when a star dies, and goes supernova, the tremendous force at this point can fuse and create even heavier elements still. This explains why the heaviest elements are the rarest elements.So, we have stars to thank for all the elements that exist. The pressures and temperatures within the Earth are just not high enough to fuse atoms together.
