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12 years ago
I know the sun does not burn, and that it actually fuses hydrogen into helium at such great velocities that it releases heat, but what happens after these hydrogens are fused into helium? Does it remain helium or does the helium break back down into hydrogen?
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The Hydrogen atoms that fuse into Helium cease to be Hydrogen atoms but stay Helium.  The energy that is released comes about because one Helium atom weighs less than the sum of four Hydrogen atoms.  The excess mass is converted into energy by the equation E = M x C^2.
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