nuclear fusion

English

Noun

nuclear fusion (usually uncountable, plural nuclear fusions)

1. (nuclear physics) The combining of the nuclei of small 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.
   • 2023 January 3, Adam Frank, “The Universe Is More in Our Hands Than Ever Before”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     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.

Antonyms

• nuclear fission

Translations

the combining of the nuclei of small atoms to form the nuclei of larger ones

• Arabic: اِنْدِمَاج نَوَوِيّ m (indimāj nawawiyy)
• Basque: fusio nuklear
• Catalan: fusió nuclear f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 核聚變／核聚变 (zh) (héjùbiàn), 核融合 (zh) (hérónghé)

• Dutch: kernfusie (nl) f
• Finnish: ydinfuusio (fi)
• French: fusion nucléaire (fr) f
• Galician: fusión nuclear (gl) f
• German: Kernfusion (de) f
• Hebrew: היתוך גרעיני (he) m (hitúkh gar'iní)
• Hindi: नाभिकीय संलयन m (nābhikīya sanlyan)
• Hungarian: magfúzió (hu), atommagfúzió (hu)
• Icelandic: kjarnasamruni m, samruni m
• Italian: fusione nucleare (it) f
• Japanese: 核融合 (ja) (かくゆうごう, kakuyūgō)
• Macedonian: ја́дрено соедину́вање n (jádreno soedinúvanje), нуклеа́рна фу́зија f (nukleárna fúzija)
• Polish: fuzja jądrowa f
• Portuguese: fusão nuclear (pt) f
• Romanian: fuziune nucleară f
• Russian: ядерная реа́кция си́нтеза f (jádernaja reákcija síntɛza), термоя́дерная реа́кция (ru) f (termojádernaja reákcija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: нуклеарна фузија f

  Roman: nuklearna fuzija f

• Slovene: jêdrsko zlívanje n, jedrska fuzija f
• Spanish: fusión nuclear (es) f
• Tagalog: sapisan