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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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.