Monday, 8 August 2011
Starry err
Mistakes were made; made by me. Fusion in stars near the end of their life fuse three Helium atoms together making other more complex atoms like beryllium, oxygen and carbon, this is called a triple alpha reaction. The fusion of Hydrogen is called hydrogen fusion . . . Duh on my part. I learned some interesting facts too. Hydrogen fusion is very efficient, 0.7% of the mass of four hydrogen is lost to create one helium. This lost mass is converted directly into energy via, E=MC2. One gram of hydrogen fused together makes 0.993 grams of helium and enough energy to move 64 tones up one kilometer. That would be enough power to put a small sized satellite into Earth orbit . . . So cool!
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And the temperature within the Sun's core is in millions of degrees, not billions or trillions.
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