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n. (nuclear reaction English)
Usage examples of "nuclear reactions".
The 'nuclear reactions' involved require much higher energy levels, per atom, than you need for chemical reactions, which is why the old-time alchemists never managed to turn lead into gold.
The weight of the outer layers of the star is now supported by the high temperatures and pressures generated in the interior nuclear reactions.
Usually, but not always, the energy to expel the reaction mass comes from that reaction mass itself, by burning or through nuclear reactions.
It produces the last series of complex nuclear reactions it is able to –.
He calculated the types of nuclear reactions that would take place as the temperature at the core got higher and higher.
The energy autonomy of Frog Eggs, its ability to direct nuclear reactions upon itself, which served no purpose other than to continue the state that made this possible -- is evidence, proof, of an error on our part, because in our further incursion we came upon an effect as mysterious as it was dramatic, able under completely different circumstances to liberate, focus, and hurl back into space an impulse of tremendous power.
Its gravity compressed it, raising the temperature at the center, which then made possible nuclear reactions of carbon.
Stars will remain stable like this for a long time, with heat from the nuclear reactions balancing the gravitational attraction.
Another is that a solid planet can generate gases, by chemical or even nuclear reactions, or by other physical processes, which can escape from its interior into its atmosphere.
There is a lot of heat now, ten billion degrees of it, enough to begin the nuclear reactions that create the lighter elements—.
There are thousands of nuclear reactions of sufficient energy to create all sorts of radioactive isotopes.
The blanket on nuclear reactions was a puny weapon we've discussed that back and forth till I'm sick of it and it did not work on any but the Foundation.
The blanket on nuclear reactions was a puny weapon - weve discussed that back and forth till Im sick of it - and it did not work on any but the Foundation.
If the strength of the gravitational force were increased, the stellar clump would bind more strongly, causing a significant increase in the rate of nuclear reactions.