"Burning plasma" refers to a state where the fusion reactions in a plasma (a hot, electrically charged gas) produce more energy than is needed to sustain the reaction. It is essentially a self-sustaining and highly productive fusion process.
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«burning»
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Sentences with «burning plasma»
- Tuneup will begin in the year 2020, with the first try for burning plasma in 2026. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
- The U.S. tried to proceed with a next - step burning plasma experiment in the 1980s, but was unable to obtain congressional funding. (scientificamerican.com)
- The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) aims to produce 500 megawatts of power by burning a plasma of deuterium and tritium held in place by superconducting magnets in a doughnut - shaped vessel called a torus. (sciencemag.org)
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