thermonuclear reaction
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This thermonuclear reaction creates vast amounts of light and heat, allowing our home star to shine.
From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2023
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced Tuesday that they had made a major breakthrough in studying fusion, a.k.a. the thermonuclear reaction that keeps the sun going.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2022
Fusion is the thermonuclear reaction that powers the sun and other stars — the fusing of hydrogen atoms into helium.
From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2022
Opatrný says using the radiation from accretion disks would be particularly clever, because the disks convert energy more efficiently than the thermonuclear reaction in conventional stars.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 16, 2021
At some time during its first years, Mercury had been so close to the sun that its temperature was driven high enough to permit a subatomic thermonuclear reaction.
From Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)
