noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cold fusion
fusion bomb
nuclear fusion
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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cold
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The cold fusion controversy provides a vivid illustration.
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Fleischmann and Pons thought that they could achieve cold fusion by another route.
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That is what happened when the news of cold fusion erupted.
controlled
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Work on controlled thermonuclear fusion proceeded secretly in both nations and in Britain.
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The first controlled fusion reactions had been seen and their nature was now being clarified.
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However, the controlled fusion reaction has not yet been achieved experimentally.
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If controlled practical fusion is ever achieved, the investment will pay off.
nuclear
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If the scientists succeed, they will have taken a small step toward improving the efficiency of nuclear fusion devices.
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To an unformed child, Edna Madalyn McGurk Ting was like nuclear fusion .
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The two chemists have no nuclear evidence for fusion at all.
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Jupiter is about fifty times too small to maintain the nuclear fires of fusion in its core.
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But then, so would be nuclear fusion in the state I was in.
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Nuclear Fusion Nuclear fusion - the process which powers the sun - is the Holy Grail of energy production.
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The company blames cuts in Government funding for its work into nuclear fusion for the job losses.
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There could be a sudden breakthrough in nuclear fusion or the cost equation of photo-electric energy.
thermonuclear
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Work on controlled thermonuclear fusion proceeded secretly in both nations and in Britain.
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Eventually the internal pressure and temperature rise sufficiently for thermonuclear fusion to begin.
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Cockroft dearly believed that the source of the neutrons was thermonuclear fusion .
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That turned out to be a mistake, Zeta's neutrons were not from thermonuclear fusion .
■ NOUN
bomb
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Edward Teller, in particular, believed the fusion bomb to be theoretically possible.
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Indeed, fusion bombs and warheads must be periodically disassembled and recharged with fresh tritium.
cell
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So you can effect cell fusion without activating the oocytes if you do this in a calcium-free medium.
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For one thing, he chose to carry out the essential cell fusion with Sendai virus-but Sendai virus is wretched.
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Perhaps the Sendai virus used for cell fusion was damaging.
protein
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Schematic representations of the fusion proteins and reporter gene that were used.
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The reciprocal combinations used provide an internal functional control for expression of the fusion proteins .
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These fusion proteins could be used similarly to screen expression libraries.
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Production and maintenance of Rat-1 fibroblasts stably expressing the c-Myc-ER fusion protein and the defective c-Myc mutant protein 106-143c-Myc-ER have been described.
reaction
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The spark was supposed to ignite the fusion reaction or miniature thermonuclear explosion.
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In fusion reactions , light atoms are brought together sufficiently energetically to overcome their natural repulsion.
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The first controlled fusion reactions had been seen and their nature was now being clarified.
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However, the controlled fusion reaction has not yet been achieved experimentally.
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Both particles created in a single fusion reaction carry energy that can be turned into heat and, ultimately, into electricity.
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The fusion reaction has in fact technically been achieved at the Princeton Tokomak fusion test reactor which operated successfully for 50 milliseconds.
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Nuclear fusion reactions between deuterium ions produced between 10 5 and 10 6 neutrons per pulse.
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The fusion reactions that power the sun must produce vast numbers of neutrinos.
reactor
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They will also have developed a new technique for controlling reactions within a fusion reactor .
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The use of light isotopes in a fusion reactor has been under experimental study since the 1950s.
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The reactor is widely regarded as the last step before design of commercial fusion reactors.
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They include a laboratory for handling tritium, the heavy radioactive isotope of hydrogen which is a fuel for fusion reactors .
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There are a number of possible choices for the fuel to be used in a fusion reactor .
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Now that there is every reason to believe that we can build a fusion reactor there is growing attention to technology.
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The first is the need to demonstrate operation well above the break-even point in a fusion reactor .
research
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But that is just what happened to fusion research in the United States toward the end of the 1950's.
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Long billed as a potentially boundless source of relatively clean energy, fusion research costs hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
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Before then all fusion research had been conducted behind a screen of secrecy.
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In a sense, the modern era of fusion research dates from that measurement in 1969.
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Polarised hydrogen, on the other hand. which may be easier to make than polarised xenon, could help fusion research .
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Governor Norman Bangerter immediately convened an emergency session of the State Legislature to appropriate five million dollars for fusion research .
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As fusion research today is all about containing the fuel, any benefit here would be more than welcome.
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The first published indications of fusion research appeared in 1956.
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occur
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They then began to take measurements to see if any heat was being generated, suggestive of fusion occurring .
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Such was the case with the idea that hydrogen fusion might occur at moderate temperatures within solid materials.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His philosophy is a fusion of intellect and spiritual belief.
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The Cherry Blossom restaurant serves a fusion of Japanese and Californian cooking.
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The film is a fusion of history and contemporary events.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Lloyd George would propose fusion to his Liberal supporters, and Bonar Law would follow suit on the next day.
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The result was at its best the perfect fusion of continuity and change.
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The spark was supposed to ignite the fusion reaction or miniature thermonuclear explosion.
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The use of light isotopes in a fusion reactor has been under experimental study since the 1950s.
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Unfortunately some of these failings pervaded part of the test-tube fusion story of 1989.