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carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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.

Coordinates

p-p cycle · proton-proton chain

Synonyms

Bethe-Weizsäcker cycle · CNO cycle

Translations (4)

it ciclo del carbonio-azoto (group of nuclear reactions thought to occur in stars) · fi hiili-typpi-happi-sykli (group of nuclear reactions thought to occur in stars) · pl cykl węglowo-azotowo-tlenowy (group of nuclear reactions thought to occur in stars) · fr cycle carbone-azote-oxygène (group of nuclear reactions thought to occur in stars)