Multiple Choice
An iron core cannot support a massive main-sequence star because
A) iron has poor nuclear binding energy.
B) iron cannot fuse with other nuclei to produce energy.
C) iron supplies too much pressure.
D) iron fusion only occurs in a degenerate core.
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