How are the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen cycles different?

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Christopher Roth

14 July, 05:44

How are the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen cycles different?

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Selah Boyle · Answer 1

The CNO cycle (for carbon-nitrogen-oxygen) is one of the two known sets of fusion reactions by which stars convert hydrogen to helium, the other being the proton-proton chain reaction. Unlike the latter, the CNO cycle is a catalytic cycle.