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What type of reactions occurring inside the sun produce solar energy?
Nuclear fusion is a type of reaction that occurs inside the sun produces solar energy.
Explanation
Nuclear fusion - It is defined as the combining of two lighter nuclei into a heavier one through a nuclear reaction. Light nuclei have to be heated to extremely high temperature, which results in the production of a relatively high amount of energy.
Nuclear fusion is the source of the Sun’s phenomenal energy production. The Hydrogen and Helium atoms that constitute Sun, fuses in a heavy amount [620 billion Kg of Hydrogen nuclei (protons) into Helium] every second to produce 384.6 trillion Joules of energy per second and make the sun a nearly inexhaustible source of energy.
Updated on: 10-Oct-2022
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