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Title: During helium burning, some 4He combines with 16O, much like the way it combines with 12C to form ...
Post by: symbo on Mar 19, 2017
During helium burning, some 4He combines with 16O, much like the way it combines with 12C to form 16O.  What is produced by the 16O + 4He reaction?  (The periodic table shown in Chapter 4 of Comins and Kaufmann, Discovering the Universe, 7th Ed., may be useful.)
A)   18O (heavy isotope of oxygen)   C)   22Na (light isotope of sodium)
B)   20Ne (regular isotope of neon)   D)   20F (heavy isotope of fluorine)


Title: Re: During helium burning, some 4He combines with 16O, much like the way it combines with 12C to ...
Post by: hyponotica on Mar 19, 2017
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Title: Re: During helium burning, some 4He combines with 16O, much like the way it combines with 12C to form ...
Post by: symbo on Jul 10, 2017
Thanks for answering, I'll share this with my classmates too