Sentences with phrase «fusing deuterium»

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is a multinational collaboration that represents one of the world's largest attempts to fuse deuterium and tritium, two heavy isotopes of hydrogen.

While these objects can not fuse «regular» hydrogen (a single proton nucleus) like stars, they have enough mass to briefly fuse deuterium (hydrogen with a proton - neutron nucleus).

Not exact matches

You compress the hydrogen and you get conditions when fusion is happening, when tritium and deuterium, special forms of hydrogen, start fusing together making helium, which we have a term for, an alpha - particle.

A fusion power plant, on the other hand, will generate energy by fusing atoms of deuterium and tritium, two isotopes of hydrogen — the lightest element.

Human male sperm and human female eggs are an - alogous to the millions of tons of inactive deuterium floating harmlessly in the ocean but combine them in a fusion reaction, they instantly become the expanding energy of the Sun found in all stars as they continuously fuse more hydrogen making the const - ituents of all human life..

These seek to harness the energy released when light nuclei, usually deuterium and tritium, are fused.

Human life begins with a bang but not quite the bang of the fusing of tritium and deuterium in a hydrogen bomb.

When the deuterium atoms smash together, some of them fuse, producing a helium nucleus and a neutron.

Then, researchers believe that the deuterium and tritium nuclei will fuse together to form a helium nucleus, releasing a burst of energy.

Under laboratory conditions it is the two hydrogen isotopes — deuterium and tritium — that fuse most readily when held as a plasma at temperatures of several hundred million degrees.

Mainstream fusion power schemes fuse hydrogen isotopes called deuterium and tritium to make helium nuclei, releasing large amounts of energy in the process.

When deuterium and helium - 3 fuse, they produce high - energy protons rather than neutrons.

Fusion reactors heat and squeeze a plasma — an ionized gas — composed of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium, compressing the isotopes until their nuclei overcome their mutual repulsion and fuse together.

The aim of ITER is to show that, in theory, nuclei of deuterium and tritium (isotopes of hydrogen) can be fused in a searingly hot plasma at the heart of the reactor, thereby releasing large quantities of heat that could be used to generate power.

Yamaguchi also detected a difference in mass of 0.64 per cent between the deuterium atoms which fuse and the helium - 4 that they generate.

When two deuterium atoms fuse in his experiments, they produce helium - 4 together with energy, in the form of photons and lattice vibrations called «phonons».

As the deuterium ions crowd together, they eventually fuse at a maximum rate of a million - billion reactions per second, he says.

When the researchers applied a current to the cell, they thought deuterium atoms from heavy water that had penetrated into the palladium cathode were fusing to form helium atoms.

Perhaps, the scientists thought, the bubbles would get so big that their collapse would produce temperatures near 10 million degreeshot enough to cause a few deuterium atoms in the acetone to fuse into helium or tritium (hydrogen with two extra neutrons).

Placing a voltage across the electrodes supposedly allows deuterium nuclei to move into palladium's molecular lattice, enabling them to overcome their natural repulsion and fuse together, releasing a blast of energy.

Brown dwarfs are not considered stars because they are too small to fuse hydrogen in their cores — they don't have the gravitational oomph in their core to sustain hydrogen fusion, but, depending on how massive they are, they do have enough mass to sporadically fuse elements like lithium and deuterium.

There was particular disagreement over whether round objects that existed in belts, and large deuterium fusing objects should qualify.