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the process is 7.274 MeV.

As a side effect of the process, some carbon nuclei fuse with additional helium to produce a stable isotope of oxygen and energy:

: + -> +  ()

Nuclear fusion reactions of helium with hydrogen produces lithium-5, which is also highly unstable, and decays back into smaller nuclei with a half-life of .

Fusing with additional helium nuclei can create heavier elements in a chain of stellar nucleosynthesis

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