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Oxygen and the Sun

Author:      margaret b weinman
Is there here oxygen on the Sun?

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Author:      samuel p bowen
There are many lighter atoms on the surface of the Sun, but not many as a
percentage of the surface content.  The Sun is so hot that whatever atoms
are there are ionized more than once.

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