Glizdka
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The sun converts about 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second. However, about 0.6% of that 600 million tons is converted not into helium, but into pure energy, about 4 million tons of mass into about 1 zettawatt-hour of energy.
I can't seem to find a verb that would refer to these 4 million tons converted into 1 zettawatt-hour of energy, in a standalone sentence, without further explanation required. All the verbs I've come up with, eg., consumes, fuses, transforms, sound ambiguous/confusing; I think I need a verb that I don't know yet. I want the reader to know that I'm referring to the conversion of mass to energy, not the conversion of one element into another. Do you know of a verb I could use?
"The sun [missing verb] 4 million tons of hydrogen per second."
I can't seem to find a verb that would refer to these 4 million tons converted into 1 zettawatt-hour of energy, in a standalone sentence, without further explanation required. All the verbs I've come up with, eg., consumes, fuses, transforms, sound ambiguous/confusing; I think I need a verb that I don't know yet. I want the reader to know that I'm referring to the conversion of mass to energy, not the conversion of one element into another. Do you know of a verb I could use?
"The sun [missing verb] 4 million tons of hydrogen per second."