Word: hydrogen
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...national laboratories; it was the work of a pair of chemists operating on a shoestring budget and using little more than a test tube, a pencil-thin strip of metal and a car battery. Even more incredible was the assertion that this humble apparatus, fueled with a form of hydrogen found in ordinary seawater, had generated four times as much energy as it consumed. Could this be a new and virtually limitless source of cheap, clean power...
Nuclear fusion, the process that fires the sun, usually occurs when two atoms are squeezed together at very high temperatures to make one new atom. For example, two atoms of deuterium -- an isotope of hydrogen -- can be fused to form a helium atom and a neutron, releasing a sizable burst of energy. But before that can occur, deuterium nuclei generally need to be compressed with sufficient force to overcome their mutually repellent electrical charges. In H-bombs, that force is supplied by the detonation of an A-bomb. Conventional fusion techniques require giant magnets, powerful laser beams and particle accelerators...
RESEARCHERS who sunk billions of dollars in hopes of producing energy by nuclear fusion must be kicking themselves. Until recently, conventional wisdom in the physics world had it that the only way to feasibly derive energy from a controlled fusion reaction was to subject hydrogen nuclei to extreme pressures and temperatures of millions of degrees...
Scientists at the University of Utah have apparently discovered a technique to create fusion reactions by a process simple enough to perform in a high school chem lab. The process, dubbed "cold fusion," is performed at room temperature using deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen found in sea-water...
Members of the Japanese Association of Atomic Bomb and Hydrogen Bomb Sufferers, in one of the first stops of a tour of New England, described their experiences in the tragic blasts. They were accompanied by interpreters from the Never Again Campaign, a youth organization devoted to the abolition of war as a means for resolving international conflict...