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Loading contentA second route from hydrogen to helium, in which carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen act as catalysts that are used and regenerated. Because it is extremely temperature-sensitive, the CNO cycle dominates hydrogen burning in stars more massive than roughly 1.3 solar masses, whose cores are hotter than the Sun's.
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