Neutrons from Carbon-13

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(process by which neutrons are freed in the s process)

Neutrons from Carbon-13 (¹³C) are freed through this Fusion step:

13    4      16
  C +  He ->   O + n
 6    2       8

This is one of the sources of free neutrons used by the S-Process in Asymptotic Giant Branch stars.

(atoms,metals,nucleosynthesis,fusion) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-process