silicon burning

English

Noun

silicon burning (uncountable)

  1. (physics, astronomy) the nucleosynthesis process, in stars where temperatures exceed 3x109K, in which silicon undergoes photodisintegration to form fragments which in turn produce elements of atomic number up to 60, peaking at iron
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