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Inject deuterium gas and crank up the voltage to 200 kilovolts, and the electric field will yank electrons off some of the atoms to create deuterons and accelerate them toward the center of the contraption.
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Adrian Cho, science.org, 18 July 2024
Those devices fired a beam of deuterons into a solid target laced with deuterium.
—Adrian Cho, science.org, 18 July 2024
The neutron collides with another deuteron in the lattice, imparting some of its own momentum to the deuteron.
—Bayarbadrakh Baramsai, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Feb. 2022
In the lab, Wu and Shaknov used it to bombard a sheet of copper with deuterons, generating an unstable isotope, Cu 64, as a source of positrons—the antimatter.
—Michelle Frank, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
Shooting the gold with a proton creates a circular pattern; shooting the gold with a deuteron (a proton-neutron pair) creates an elliptical pattern; and shooting the gold with a helium-3 atom (a proton-proton-neutron trio) creates a triangular pattern.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2018
The deuteron is a bound state of a proton and a neutron, and the binding comes from the strong force, which is carried by gluons.
—Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
In the first step of this fusion process, two protons inside the sun fuse into a deuteron while giving off a neutrino and a positron—the antiparticle of the electron.
—Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
Then the deuteron captures another proton to form a helium isotope and emits a gamma-ray photon.
—Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
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Adrian Cho, science.org, 18 July 2024
Those devices fired a beam of deuterons into a solid target laced with deuterium.
—Adrian Cho, science.org, 18 July 2024
The neutron collides with another deuteron in the lattice, imparting some of its own momentum to the deuteron.
—Bayarbadrakh Baramsai, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Feb. 2022
In the lab, Wu and Shaknov used it to bombard a sheet of copper with deuterons, generating an unstable isotope, Cu 64, as a source of positrons—the antimatter.
—Michelle Frank, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
Shooting the gold with a proton creates a circular pattern; shooting the gold with a deuteron (a proton-neutron pair) creates an elliptical pattern; and shooting the gold with a helium-3 atom (a proton-proton-neutron trio) creates a triangular pattern.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2018
The deuteron is a bound state of a proton and a neutron, and the binding comes from the strong force, which is carried by gluons.
—Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
In the first step of this fusion process, two protons inside the sun fuse into a deuteron while giving off a neutrino and a positron—the antiparticle of the electron.
—Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
Then the deuteron captures another proton to form a helium isotope and emits a gamma-ray photon.
—Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
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deuteron
noun
deu·ter·on
ˈd(y)üt-ə-ˌrän 
: a deuterium nucleus
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