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silicon burning
subject			fact

silicon burning	has duration 1 day
	has optimum density 3 × 107 g cm-3
	has optimum temperature 2.7 × 109 K
	has part product iron 56
	has reactant silicon
	has reactant silicon involved in many hundreds of nuclear reactions
	has definition The end of the line for a high-mass star, silicon burning creates iron and other elements of similar mass and presages a supernova.
	is a kind of exothermic fusion process
exothermic fusion process	liberates energy
fusion	has antonym fission
	produces energy
	has product
	has reaction probability
	has catalyst
	has minimum temperature
physical process	has domain physics

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