Name: Margaret B Weinman
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Question:
Is there here oxygen on the Sun?
Replies:
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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