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Nuclear fusion

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  1. 1
    The combining of the nuclei of atoms to form the nuclei of larger ones, with a resulting release of large quantities of energy; the process that makes the sun shine, and hydrogen bombs explode. uncountable, usually

    "The emergence of this new large-scale lab-based astrophysics was an unanticipated side effect of a much broader, more fraught, and now quite in-the-news scientific journey: the quest for nuclear fusion."

  2. 2
    a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy wordnet

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