Question 7 • Summer 2024 ATA MI-Environmental Science CR Sem 1
First, hydrogen nuclei (protons) formed. Some combined with neutrons to make deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, and further fusion produced tritium; these light nuclei then helped form helium nuclei. So the correct order is hydrogen nucleus, hydrogen isotope, tritium, then helium nucleus.
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