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The 18 pages that link to Triple-alpha process, each with the reason it gives.

• Stellar nucleosynthesisBroader topic: It begins helium burning and makes carbon from the helium left by hydrogen fusion.

• Big Bang nucleosynthesisCompared with: This later route builds carbon, a nucleus not produced in significant amounts by the Big Bang.

• Proton–proton chainCompared with: It consumes helium ash rather than hydrogen, so it belongs to a later stage of stellar evolution.

• Red giantRelated: This process powers the core after a low-mass red giant ignites helium.

• CarbonRelated: This process explains how stars produce much of the universe’s carbon.

• Fred HoyleBroader topic: Hoyle predicted an excited carbon-12 state that makes this reaction proceed rapidly enough in stars.

• Nuclear astrophysicsBroader topic: It explains how stars make carbon from helium.

• Helium-4Broader topic: It consumes helium-4 as the fuel for carbon production in evolved stars.

• Horizontal branchRelated: It supplies most of the energy from helium burning in the core.

• B2FH paperBroader topic: It accounts for carbon production during helium burning.

• Primordial nucleosynthesisCompared with: Stars can build carbon from helium, a pathway unavailable during primordial nucleosynthesis.

• Helium burningBroader topic: This is the principal route by which helium burning builds carbon.

• Helium flashRelated: Its sharply temperature-sensitive rate drives the sudden energy release.

• Stellar coreRelated: It powers helium burning in evolved stellar cores.

• William Alfred FowlerBroader topic: Its rate governs carbon production, a key problem in stellar nucleosynthesis research.

• Carbon-based lifeBroader topic: This reaction explains how stars make the carbon that underlies known life.

• Carbon burningRelated: This process supplies much of the carbon that later ignites in massive stars.

• Edwin E. SalpeterRelated: Salpeter independently identified a resonance that makes this stellar carbon-production route viable.