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carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English

Syllables
car-bon-ni-tro-gen-oxy-gen -cy-cle
IPA
48
Scrabble Score
25
Letters
9
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A group of nuclear reactions, involving the interaction of protons with carbon, nitrogen and oxygen nuclei, thought to be the main source of energy in main-sequence stars of greater than 1.4 solar mass.

Uncountable

Usage

Frequently Paired Words

proton-proton chain p-p cycle

Synonyms

Bethe-Weizsäcker cycle CNO cycle

Questions

What does carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle mean?
A group of nuclear reactions, involving the interaction of protons with carbon, nitrogen and oxygen nuclei, thought to be the main source of energy in main-sequence stars of greater than 1.4 solar mass.

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