CNO bi-cycle Comparison Table

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CNO bi-cycle comparison table

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carbon cycle hydrogen burning Use of carbon and nitrogen as intermediates in the nuclear fusion process of the Sun. Cooler stars undergo the proton-proton cycle.

CNO bi-cycle 2% of the energy of our Sun carbon cycle Similar to the CNO cycle, except that it also includes a cycle in which the next-to-last step becomes ¹⁵N(p, γ) ¹⁶O(p, γ) ¹⁷F(β⁺ν) ¹⁷O(p, α) ¹⁴N. This reaction occurs once in about 2000 CN cycles. For main-sequence stars greater than a few solar masses, hydrogen burning by the CNO bi-cycle is the main source of energy.

Subject	has probability	is a kind of	is an instance of	has definition
carbon cycle		hydrogen burning		Use of carbon and nitrogen as intermediates in the nuclear fusion process of the Sun. Cooler stars undergo the proton-proton cycle.
CNO bi-cycle	2% of the energy of our Sun		carbon cycle	Similar to the CNO cycle, except that it also includes a cycle in which the next-to-last step becomes ¹⁵N(p, γ) ¹⁶O(p, γ) ¹⁷F(β⁺ν) ¹⁷O(p, α) ¹⁴N. This reaction occurs once in about 2000 CN cycles. For main-sequence stars greater than a few solar masses, hydrogen burning by the CNO bi-cycle is the main source of energy.

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