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Why would the carbon split? Why not stay carbon? And wouldn't this technically be fission energy then?
by jobseeker990 7y ago
Why would the carbon split? Why not stay carbon? And wouldn't this technically be fission energy then?
- dctoedt 7y ago> Why would the carbon split? Why not stay carbon? Don't know — I'm not knowledgeable enough in this area to do more than take WAGs about it. The sequence might be different: For example, the 1H proton might not ever fuse with the 5B11 to form 6C12; instead, the fusion reaction might be that the 5B11 fissions into two 2He4 and one tritium 1H3, after which the 1H proton fuses to the tritium to form the third 2He4. > And wouldn't this technically be fission energy then? See the explanation in this thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22383199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22383199 — it makes as much sense as anything.
- grogers 7y agoThe rough explanation I've heard before is to satisfy conservation of momentum and energy together. But on doing some more digging this seems wrong. C12+gamma is an output, just only for 0.01% of reactions. No idea why the different byproducts have different rates though.