原子聚合起来，形成气体、液体和固体。

Atoms join together to form gases, liquids and solids.

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之后会出现强核力占主导作用的短距效应，进而，原子聚合成为氦。

This allows a short-range phenomenon called the strong nuclear force to take over and causes the nuclei to merge and form helium.

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正如在太阳上所进行的反应一样，第二阶段连锁反应将氢原子聚合成较重的氦原子并在这一过程中释放出巨大的能量。

Just as in the sun, the chain reaction in the second stage fuses the hydrogen atoms into heavier helium atoms and releases vast amounts of energy in the process.

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This is solid state up here, aggregates of atoms.

这是固体，是原子的聚合物。

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