deuterium nucleus

collocation in English

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deuterium
noun[U]
uk
/dʒuːˈtɪə.ri.əm/us
/dʒuːˈtɪə.tɪr.əm/
an isotope of hydrogen that is twice the mass of ...
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nucleus
noun[C]
uk
/ˈnjuː.kli.əs/us
/ˈnuː.kli.əs/
physicsspecialized
the central part of an atom, usually made up of protons ...
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One was that a photon should be able to disintegrate thedeuteriumnucleus, thus explicitly testing if it were composed of a proton and a neutron.
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This is a nucleus with one proton and one neutron, i.e. adeuteriumnucleus.
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Thedeuteriumnucleusis twice as heavy as the hydrogen nucleus because it contains a neutron as well as a proton.
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In this experiment, the tritium nucleus captured a neutron from the fast-movingdeuteriumnucleus.
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This is the total spin of thedeuteriumnucleus.
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For fusion to take place, deuterium nuclei must approach each other very closely.
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But deuterium nuclei inside a palladium lattice are further apart than in deuterium gas, and there should be fewer fusion reactions, not more.
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It has been synthesised in the laboratory by bombarding tritium with fast-moving deuterium nuclei.
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This supposedly happens as hydrogen or deuterium nuclei fuse together to produce heat through a form of low energy nuclear reaction.
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Deuterium nuclei (in heavy water) absorb kinetic energy less well than do light hydrogen nuclei, but they are much less likely to absorb the impacting neutron.
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