Sentence examples for tritium nucleus from inspiring English sources

Muon-catalyzed fusion is the name given to the process of achieving fusion reactions by causing a deuteron (deuterium nucleus, D+), a triton (tritium nucleus, T+), and a muon to form what is called a muonic molecule.

For example, a hydrogen nucleus, 1H, and a tritium nucleus, 3H, have about the same nuclear magnetic moment and react about equally when placed between the poles of a horseshoe magnet.

Although a much rarer reaction, once a muonic molecule does form, fusion takes place almost immediately, releasing the muon in the mixture to be captured again by a deuterium or tritium nucleus and allowing the process to continue.

However, as one of his proposed alternatives, Frank suggested a phenomenon now known as muon-catalyzed fusion, in which fusion reactions happen by causing a deuterium nucleus, a tritium nucleus, and a muon to form what is called a muonic molecule.

They plan to study the tritium nucleus, which contains one proton and two neutrons.

A second approach uses large, intense lasers to bombard a frozen pellet of fusion fuel (deuterium and tritium nuclei) to heat the pellet and cause fusion to occur in a billionth of a second.

The beams should compress the sphere so rapidly that it implodes, squeezing deuterium and tritium nuclei together until they overcome their mutual repulsion and fuse to form helium (two protons and two neutrons) together with a surplus neutron and a lot of heat.

In a fusion reactor, deuterium or tritium nuclei (hydrogen atoms with one and two extra neutrons in the nucleus) fuse and form helium nuclei and neutrons.

The idea is to use intense magnetic fields to trap an ultrahot plasma of deuterium and tritium nuclei in a huge donut-shaped vacuum chamber.

However, the deuterium and tritium nuclei must be confined in powerful magnetic fields and heated to temperatures reaching 100 million degrees Celsius before they collide violently enough to fuse.

Beside the 'classical' approaches using low ionisation density hydrogen ions (protons, but also deuterons and tritium nuclei) and high ionisation density carbon ions, two new approaches will be developed.