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What do you get when you combine helium and carbon

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The internal core collapses, and heats up, until it is hot enough to fuse helium into larger atoms, for instance, by combining three helium atoms into carbon. At this same time, some helium will fuse with that carbon to produce oxygen. ... it becomes essentially a free-for-all for creating heavier and heavier atoms.

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Answer: oxygen

Explanation: Helium burns into carbon and carbon combines with helium to make oxygen.

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