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Are white dwarfs made of carbon or electron degenerate matter?
Most white dwarfs consist of fully ionised carbon and oxygen atoms$^1$. Each carbon nucleus must be accompanied by 6 electrons and each oxygen nucleus by 8 electrons. The electrons are essentially a ...
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