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carbon burning

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.22 in modern English

Syllables
car-bon burn-ing
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The nucleosynthesis process, in stars of greater than 8 solar mass that have exhausted their helium supply, in which carbon is converted to neon, sodium, magnesium and other elements.

Uncountable

noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: thermochemical oxidation of carbon.

Uncountable

Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Physics.

Frequently Paired Words

hydrogen burning helium burning oxygen burning silicon burning

Questions

What does carbon burning mean?
The nucleosynthesis process, in stars of greater than 8 solar mass that have exhausted their helium supply, in which carbon is converted to neon, sodium, magnesium and other elements.

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