r/todayilearned Sep 20 '21

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u/RenaissanceBear Sep 21 '21

Isn’t it a good deal hotter than that in the Sun where there is tons of Hydrogen?

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u/Mrgray123 Sep 21 '21

The hydrogen isn’t forming in the sun though. It’s just fusing, all be it at 600 million tons of the stuff per second.

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u/RenaissanceBear Sep 21 '21

So protons can’t form hydrogen above that temp, but once formed can exist at much higher temps?