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The sun is hot because of the nuclear transformation of hydrogen to which other gas?

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The sun is hot because of the nuclear transformation of hydrogen to which other gas?
posted Oct 5, 2017 by Prachi Sharma

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Helium
In the core of the Sun hydrogen is being converted into helium. This is called nuclear fusion. It takes four hydrogen atoms to fuse into each helium atom. During the process some of the mass is converted into energy.

answer Oct 6, 2017 by Adarsh
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