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Condition required for nuclear fusion in the sun?

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Extremely high temperature, and high density at the Sun's core allow fusion to occur. just took the test

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The Sun is a main-sequence star, and thus generates its energy by nuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium. In its core, the Sun fuses 620 million metric tons of hydrogen each second.
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