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    Will the new ITER fusion reactor actually work?

    I am hopeful that the new large ITER tokamak style fusion reactor will be successful. According to wikipedia: The ITER fusion reactor itself has been designed to produce 500 MW of output power for 50 MW of input power, or ten times the amount of energy put in. Hereby the machine is...
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    Why don't electrons stick to the protons in a nucleus?

    quantum mechanics explains why electrons do not stick to the nucleus per quantum mechanics, electrons are only allowed certain descrete energy states. electrons are not allowed to have energy states in between, above, or below the perscribed energy states of the orbitals. therefore, electrons...
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    Why is melting called fusion ?

    thank you! I can now sleep better, haha i see the etymology stems from Latin "fundere," to "pour to melt" "melting together" i guess, in chemistry, fusion retained the "melting" aspect of its roots, whereas other uses of the word, such as nuclear fusion, jazz fusion, retained the "bringing...
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    Why is melting called fusion ?

    why is "melting" called "fusion"? any idea why is "melting" called "fusion"? molecules during melting are moving farther apart, they are not "fusing" together. It seems counterintuitive to call "melting" "fusion"
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