carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle

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carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle (uncountable)

  1. (physics, astronomy) A group of nuclear reactions, involving the interaction of protons with carbon, nitrogen and oxygen nuclei, thought to be the main source of energy in main-sequence stars of greater than 1.4 solar mass.
    Synonyms: Bethe-Weizsäcker cycle, CNO cycle (abbreviation)
    Coordinate terms: proton-proton chain reaction, p-p cycle

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