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Old July 5th 03, 07:48 PM
David Knisely
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Default Iron and the Stars

Bert posted:

You did not like the sun's core transformed into an iron
core(yes)


Bert, he didn't like it because it doesn't happen! The sun is not
massive enough to produce iron in the fusion process. The sun will
eventually run out of Helium to fuse in its core and will contract into
a white dwarf with a core that is mostly made of Carbon (and maybe some
Oxygen, plus any residual amounts of iron left over from the original
composition of the sun).
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David W. Knisely
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