Why is neutrons released from fusion?
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Fission doesn't happen by energy, it happens if the core is unstable, which is caused by the amount of protons in relativity with neutrons.
Also, no, a neutron does not equal a proton + electron, it is possible for a neutron to become a proton and an electron(beta radioactivity). And even if the neutron becomes a proton and an electron, the electron immediatelly gets released into the air, because this all happens in the core.
However, if you have 1 proton and 1 electron, you have a normal hydrogen atom. Not a neutron.
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No, Stars explode when the fusion energy cannot counteract the compression of gravity on the stars core, causing it to colapse, and explode the stars outer layers into space.
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@cyberdragon442 (View Post)
That's alot of false information there.
fusion only produces larger elements in terms of atomic mass, there is no fission involved. All elements up to Iron release more energy than required to initiate the fusion reaction, after that, the energy output is lower, and the star begins to go unstable. The final element is normally Led, which cannot be fused through the normal processes of a star. The energy released, as The-Fall said, eventually gets overcome by the forces of gravity, and the star collapses, in which case, heavier elements are able to form. -
Actually, Mniip is completely right.
Why?
Two hydrogen atoms are fused together.
This becomes Helium(He) with 2 Neutrons.
The core requires more neutrons to be stable, it fissiles.
A deuterium atom is left.
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Let's slow down here this is turning into a clasical case of the blind leading the blind.
First of all hydrogen 1+ hydrogen 1 fusion reactions are not impossible, in fact every second millions of tons of normal hydrogen fuse - in the sun, but I can agree with one statement many people have made and that is that fusion reactions (H1+H1) are not very well simulated in powder because in those reactions helium is produced, but instead one neutrino (small particle with no charge can come in three types: electron neutrino, tau neutrino and muon neutrino, sign V) one anti proton (Normal protons have a positive charge and a spin of 1/2, yet anti protons are negatively charged and they happen to be one of the building blocks of antimatter) a LOT of energy and just for info this reaction does not release any kind of gamma rays.
To another point some of you wrote " that any element with a atomic weight above H3s' is unable to fuse" which is also incorrect, the only reason we use H2 and H3 for nuclear weapons and experiments is because it generates more useful byproducts, and elements with a higher atomic number (more neutrons, protons and electrons) are much harder to fuse.
Yet another thing to take aside is that many people believe radiation to be neutrons which also is false there are a array of particles in what I comprehend as you believe to be a fissile reaction byproduct including:
Alpha particles (Helium nucleus)
Beta particles (a electron ejected when a unstable nucleus seething with energy does not have the capacity to hold in the energy making the neutron decay into a proton resulting in a electron to be produced) and gamma rays (a photon (light) can behave like a wave, but I am not about to go into quantum theory, the frequency of that photon defies its' classification and the highest frequency photon is a gamma ray which is pretty much a photon carrying serious energy.
I hope this article helped some people.
