Arsenic formation in stars

Like nucleosynthesis during the Big Bang, fusing nuclei in stars and supernovas exist as plasma rather than atoms (Faure, 1998, 17). 

Notice that Reaction 3.3 produces two protons, which may be used in Reaction 3.1. 

The triple-alpha process is possible in the dense cores of massive stars. The process involves the essentially simultaneous fusion of three 42He2+ to form 126C6+ (Faure, 1998, 17-18). As the first step  

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