oxygen burning

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oxygen burning (usually uncountable, plural oxygen burnings)

  1. (physics, astronomy) The nucleosynthesis process, subsequent to carbon burning, in which neon disintegrates to oxygen which subsequently fuses to form silicon, phosphorus sulfur and other elements of atomic number up to 40.
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