fusion reaction
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffusionandreaction
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fusion
noun[U]
uk/ˈfjuː.ʒən/us/ˈfjuː.ʒən/
an occasion when two or more things join or ...
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reaction
noun
uk/riˈæk.ʃən/us/riˈæk.ʃən/
behaviour, a feeling or an action that is a direct result of ...
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(Definition offusionandreactionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Pons in turn flashed a picture of his own - a simple jury-rigged device in a plastic dishpan that supposedly creates a sustained energy-producingfusionreaction.
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This distorted field promotes a tunneling effect, which enhancesfusionreactionrates even in low temperature plasma.
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When the cloud of tunneled nuclei meets each other, they immediately make a compound nucleus, and makefusionreaction.
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At high enough temperatures, the collisions are so close and frequent that a self-sustainingfusionreactionis initiated.
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Thereafter, they make compound nuclei immediately andfusionreactionis induced.
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Thefusionreactionproduces the desired engine thrust.
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The ion energy goes mostly into heating of the electrons in the target, never permitting an exothermalfusionreaction.
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The energy from thefusionreactionis recovered in direct electric converter.
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However, the ion density in clusters is relatively low (underdense), but thefusionreactionrate is proportional to the square of the ion density.
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Par ticularly, it might lead to a different result on the products of the nuclearfusionreactionafter the resonant tunneling.
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In that analogy we see the possibilities which may flow fromfusionreaction.
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And why does that term exclude the nuclearfusionreaction?
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Thefusionreactionis the one which gives us hope of a limitless supply of power.
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This hydrogen-to-heliumfusionreactionreleases energy that balances the inward gravitational pressure and the star becomes stable for millions of years.
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This is second easiestfusionreaction, fusing of deuterium with itself.
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But first the target chamber needed to be equipped with shields to block neutrons that afusionreactionwould produce.
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