Nuclear Fusion

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tritium will produce a helium nucleus and
an energetic neutron that can help sustain further fusion. This is the basic
principal of the hydrogen bomb which employs a brief, controlled thermonuclear
fusion reaction. This was also how the car in the Back to the Future movie
worked. It had a much more sophisticated system of producing a fusion reaction
from things like, old coffee grounds, bananas, and old beer cans. Thermonuclear
reactions depend on high energies, and the possibility of a low-temperature
nuclear fusion has generally been discounted. Little does the scientific
community know about my experiments. I have produced cold fusion in my basement
with things like: stale bread, milk, peanut butter and flat Pepsi. I have been
able to produce a ten-megaton reaction which as little as a saltine cracker and
some grass clippings. But enough about my discoveries. Early in 1989 two
electrochemists startled the scientific world by claiming to achieve a room-
temperature fusion ...

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everything they know. Besides, the two shmucks didn�t even follow my
instructions for the experiment. However, until I reveal my secrets about cold
fusion, it will remain only a proposed theory. nuclear fusion is also what
powers the rest of the stars in the solar system. Stars carry out fusion in a
thermonuclear manner. Thermonuclear is a really cool word which I am going to
use several more times just because it is so cool. In a thermonuclear reaction
matter is forced to exist in only in a plasma state, consisting of electrons,
positive ions and very few neutral atoms. Fusion reactions that occur within a
plasma serve to heat it further, because the portion of the ...

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