HOW ELEMENTS FORM

A STARS CORE

• A stars core is dense and hotter than you or I
• could imagine. So you would think there is
• Nothing going on in there right? Wrong.
• The truth of the matter is, life itself is made at
• the core of a star. The next stage is a average star

ALL ELEMENTS MADE BY FUSION IN THE SUN

• The sun has so much heat and pressure at its
• core that hydrogen is fused into helium. This
• is kind of like fuel for a star it's what keeps it
• alive. But after it runs out of fuel it starts to die.
• By die, I mean get hotter and collapse on itself

CARBON

• This stage, in which Carbon is Made, is called a red giant.
• When a star begins to die, there are many stages
• it goes through, and each one makes new elements
• In each stage. And the third stage is when Carbon is
• formed. The next stage is a planetary nebula

CALCIUM

• This process keeps going on, with the star getting
• Hotter and hotter, and continues to collapse, and at
• some point in this process, calcium along with all the
• other natural ellements know to man, are made in this process.
• Each stage is shorter and hotter then the last one.

IRON

• After all that, the star enters it's final stage. In
• this stage, the core of the star is now helium, hydrodyin,
• Carbon, oxygen, and all of the other elements together
• After that has fused together, the stars core is pure iron
• Then in a few seconds, the stars life ends. This stage is a white dwarf