Helium could be successively added to make new elements until carbon were more nucleons can not be added due to increased nuclear forces.
What is nuclear fusion?
The term nuclear fusion refers to the process in which the atoms of elements could be joined together. We know that elements could build up from helium all the way up to iron by the process of nuclear fusion. This is the way that elements were made in the universe from the beginning. Let us recall that nuclear fusion continues to occur in the sun and that is the way that the sun is able to produce light. There is a lot of evolution of heat that accompanies a nuclear fusion as we could see in stellar reactions.
Now if you add helium to carbon you get oxygen. When another helium atom is added, we get neon and if we add another helium atom, we get magnesium.
We could make elements up to iron because at that point, the nuclear forces would not permit the addition of more nucleons due to increase in nuclear forces.
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