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X-process comparison table

Subject	has definition	is a kind of
nucleosynthesis	The production of heavy nuclei from the fusion of lighter ones.	fusion
X-process	The unknown nucleosynthetic process that Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler, and Hoyle said had formed the light nuclei deuterium, lithium, beryllium, and boron.	nucleosynthesis

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