They way I think about it, is that it loses energy density and gains electrons. There’s someone known as Renzo who did plasma electrolysis and synthesized oxygen from sulphur at low current on YouTube. I think that usually we describe this as solely an electron exchange but that the electron configuration can be broken down by photo-disintegration and measured by decay of any atom into helium concentrations. Imagine electron configurations with like 2[He] and think about an electron shell being a cloud of probability with resistance being relative to the radiant energy. Radiant energy is primarily responsible for black holes