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Carbon-burning process

The carbon-burning process or carbon fusion is a set of nuclear fusion reactions that take place in the cores of massive stars (at least 4 M☉ at birth) that combines carbon into other elements. It requires high temperatures (>5×10 K or 50 keV) and densities (>3×10 kg/m).

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