BASIC nuclear chemical reactions in regard to the sun.?

Question

I just need good websites to research and/or information that I can site. Needs to be middle-school, high-school level information. Doing a report.

Answer 1

The most important reactions in the sun are nuclear-fusion reactions, where the nuclei of lighter elements are fused together under heat and the pressure of the sun's own gravity into heavier elements, not chemical-reactions, where elements combine by bonding together to form molecules. The fusion-reaction produces vast amounts of heat and light radiant energy, as matter is converted into energy according to Einstein's formula E = M x (C squared) (Energy in Joules equals Mass in grams x a constand, the speed of light 300,000,000 m/s squared). The sun is too hot for molecular bonds to be stable, so the molecules would quickly fall apart. The gaseous-elements exist as super-hot plasma.

Nuclear-fusion is the opposite of nuclear-fission, as used in today's nuclear power stations, where the nucleus of heavy elements split into lighter elements.

Answer 2

The reactions going on in the Sun are for the most part not chemical reactions. And it is certainly not the chemical reactions that cause it to light up the way it does (it has been proved that it would last less than 100000 years if that was the case, and it is some 4500000000 years old).

Answer 3

try www.wikipedia.org

Answer 4

www.wikipedia.com
www.internetnews.com
atropos.as.arizona.edu