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One Star in a Binary Will Almost Always Become a Red

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One star in a binary will almost always become a red giant before the other because


A) one star is always larger in radius than the other.
B) binaries always have one star twice as massive as the other.
C) small differences in main-sequence masses yield large differences in main-sequence lifetimes.
D) the more massive binary star always gets more mass from the less massive binary star when both are main-sequence stars.
E) one star always spins faster than the other.

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