adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fusion
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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 .
reaction
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The objective was to use a relatively small fission device to trigger-off a thermonuclear reaction of arbitrarily large yield.
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Kurchatov visited Harwell and suggested that he might give a lecture on Soviet work into thermonuclear reactions in gas discharges.
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In all experiments on toroidal discharges neutrons have been observed in about the numbers to be expected if thermonuclear reactions were proceeding.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Chopra still did not know what was being excavated, or why they had stolen the most powerful thermonuclear device ever created.
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Eventually the internal pressure and temperature rise sufficiently for thermonuclear fusion to begin.
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The 20-year cold war between them turned thermonuclear .
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The objective was to use a relatively small fission device to trigger-off a thermonuclear reaction of arbitrarily large yield.
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The spark was supposed to ignite the fusion reaction or miniature thermonuclear explosion.
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This finding was incompatible with a simple thermonuclear origin.
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We're talking about the combined and simultaneous effect of a massive thermonuclear detonation, a volcanic eruption and an earthquake.
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Work on controlled thermonuclear fusion proceeded secretly in both nations and in Britain.