This process first begins at the ZAMS point.
This process forms a carbon resonance named for Hoyle at 7.65 mega-electronvolts. This process first begins at the ZAMS point. The rate of this process suddenly picks up during carbon detonation. The PPI, PPII, and PPIII chains are variants of this process, which forms electron neutrinos and also generates (*) di-protons in its first step. At high temperatures, a helium flash may lead to a large increase in the rate of this process using only alpha particles. Brown dwarfs cannot sustain this process with only hydrogen. For 10 points, name this nuclear reaction which powers the Sun, the combination of small nuclei, as opposed to nuclear fission.
This process forms a carbon resonance named for Hoyle at 7.65 mega-electronvolts.
nuclear fusion [or nucleosynthesis; or proton-proton chain; or CNO cycle; or triple alpha process]