neon burning
(fusion reaction starting with neon)
Neon burning consists of two possible sequences of nuclear fusion
reactions leading from neon to magnesium or oxygen, which
takes place in early stars.
A neon-burning shell appears in a sufficiently-massive star
during a phase in the asymptotic giant branch, forming after a carbon-burning
shell and before an oxygen-burning shell (if the latter forms).
Neon burning requires a temperature on the order of
109 K.
(fusion,nuclear,reaction,nucleosynthesis,atoms,neon)
Further reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon-burning_process
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution#Massive_stars
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1974ApJ...193..169A/abstract
http://hosting.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses/astro201/highmass.htm
Referenced by pages:
carbon burning
magnesium (Mg)
neon (Ne)
nucleosynthesis
oxygen (O)
oxygen burning
post-main-sequence star
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