thermonuclear reaction
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This thermonuclear reaction creates vast amounts of light and heat, allowing our home star to shine.
From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2023
Fusion is the thermonuclear reaction that lights up the sun and other stars — the fusing of hydrogen atoms into helium.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2022
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced Tuesday that they had made a major breakthrough in studying fusion, a.k.a. the thermonuclear reaction that keeps the sun going.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2022
Opatrný says using the radiation from accretion disks would be particularly clever, because the disks convert energy more efficiently than the thermonuclear reaction in conventional stars.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 16, 2021
Our knowledge of phenomena such as nuclear fusion, thermonuclear reaction, stellar explosions, genes and genetic codes, and complex dynamic systems is no longer predominantly based on inductions from observed facts to theories explaining such facts.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
