Fusor

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A celestial body that, through self-gravity, is able to perform nuclear fusion within its core, at any point in its life. These include stars, stellar remnants, and brown dwarfs.
  2. 2
    An electrostatic inertial confinement fusion apparatus. A device that causes nuclear fusion through electrostatic field compression of the fusion fuel.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Coined by Gibor Basri, Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, at the 2003 IAU conference; presumably fuse + -or.

Etymology 2

From fuse + -or.

Related phrases

brown dwarfcelestial bodynuclear fusionstellar remnant

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