"fuel" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There are other tricky requirements; for instance, most heating of the thermonuclear fuel must come from fast-moving alpha particles (helium nuclei).
- Additionally, a few grams of tritium (a by-product of plutonium production reactors and thermonuclear fuel) can increase the overall yield of the bombs by a factor of three to four.
- Nearly all small and intermediate-mass stars (below about nine solar masses) will end up as white dwarfs once they have exhausted their supply of thermonuclear fuel.
- He claims to have found his mistake in December 1950: he had failed to realize that compressing the thermonuclear fuel was necessary for fusion reactions to proceed.
- But then, unlike the Sun, it begins to use its accumulated helium as thermonuclear fuel.
- At that point, available thermonuclear fuel is exhausted and the temperature of the star's core, which had risen to some 10 billion degrees, begins to fall.
- Ultimately, scientists hope to build a "burning plasma" machine, one in which the thermonuclear fuel will sustain its own ignition, producing an excess of useful power.
- No one has yet been able to squeeze thermonuclear fuel tightly enough and long enough to ignite a self-sustaining fusion reaction.
- In 1946, Teller participated in a conference in which the properties of thermonuclear fuels such as deuterium and the possible design of a hydrogen bomb were discussed.
- Once they exhaust their thermonuclear fuel, most stars end up as white dwarfs, typically dense, Earth-sized balls containing mass about two-thirdsthat of the Sun.
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