When two protons fuse in a star, the product is 2 H plus a positron (Equation 21.26).Why

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When two protons fuse in a star, the product is 2H plus a positron (Equation 21.26).Why do you think the more obvious product of the reaction, 2He, is unstable?


Equation 21.26

|H + }H → }H + 9e H + fe

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Chemistry The Central Science

ISBN: 978-0321696724

12th edition

Authors: Theodore Brown, Eugene LeMay, Bruce Bursten, Catherine Murphy, Patrick Woodward

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