NOUN
- 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.