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thermonuclear reaction

NOUN
  1. a nuclear fusion reaction taking place at very high temperatures (as in the sun)

How To Use thermonuclear reaction In A Sentence

  • Since those temperatures generally amount to a few million degrees, fusion reactions are also known as thermonuclear reactions.
  • Most of it is hydrogen-dominated gas or plasma, simple in behavior though bearing the seeds of elemental diversity through thermonuclear reactions in stars.
  • The SG-III Laser driver facility now under construction is a significant project in China, it is used to start thermonuclear reaction by generating high power laser beams under laboratory conditions.
  • The SG-III Laser driver facility now under construction is a significant project in China, it is used to start thermonuclear reaction by generating high power laser beams under laboratory conditions.
  • Kurchatov visited Harwell and suggested that he might give a lecture on Soviet work into thermonuclear reactions in gas discharges.
  • Its devastating effect is twofold: first, from the heat of the thermonuclear reaction, and second, from the radioactive fallout which continues after the bomb has been deployed.
  • Through a process known as ‘boosting,’ you get a thermonuclear reaction.
  • Thermonuclear reactions are, quite literally, nuclear burning.
  • The line is crossed once it's massive enough to start thermonuclear reactions in the core.
  • Over the Sun's lifetime, the thermonuclear reactions would, according to theory, gradually change the composition of the core of the Sun and alter the Sun's overall physical structure.
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