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it does not. you can fuse any elements to each other

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Q: How come fusion needs hydrogen instead of other elements?
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What is preventing fusion energy from filling out current energy needs?

in neclear fusion, two hydrogen nuclei combine to create a helium, which has slightly less mass than the two hydrogen nuclei. The lost mass is converted to energy.


What elements in periodic table that your body needs?

carbon, hydrogen, oxygen....


How can the sun live when a fire needs oxygen to survive?

The sun is not a fire... it is nuclear fusion being conduct with the hydrogen particles colliding together. So basically once the sun runs out hydrogen it will explode.


What kills more h-bomb or a-bomb?

different letters in the alphabetAn "A-bomb" is usually a fission bomb (plutonium or Uranium fissions = splits into lighter elements)An "H-bomb" is a fusion bomb wherein Hydrogen (or some isotope of it) "fuses" into heavier elements. Often an H-bomb needs the energy of an A-bomb to start its nuclear reaction but the output is SO much greater that the A-bombs energy output is dwarfed by the enormous fusion explosion.


What element make up molecule of sugar?

The formula for a sugar is generally CnH2nOn for a monosaccharide. Whatever the sugar, it needs to contain carbon, hydrogen and oxygen


Temperatures like the heat of the Sun is necessary to carry out?

Nuclear fusion. It needs to be hot enough for atoms of hydrogen to fuse together to produce a helium atom - this process releases a large amount of energy.


How is the atmosphere related to the death of stars?

Most chemical elements beyond hydrogen and helium are produced in a star's fusion reaction. Only when that particular star dies, do those larger elements, like oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, etc..., get released to space, where they become part of a forming planet. Stars like out sun can make most elements up to Fe (iron). For elements heavier than iron, a very large star needs to go nova (explode). During this nova explosion, elements like gold, platinum, lead, silver are created. Novas occur seldomly, so these elements tend to be rare. Why they are considered "precious."


What is the difference between fusion and fission atomic bombs?

Good question. A fusion bomb combines (fuses) light nuclei (hydrogen) into larger nuclei to get its energy. But it needs a fission bomb to start it. A fission bomb breaks up (fissions) heavy nuclei (uranium/plutonium) into smaller nuclei to get its energy.


What needs to occur for a star to be born?

A clump of matter must collapse under the attraction of its own gravity. The collapse must heat the matter up to form a plasma which undergoes thermonuclear fusion - of hydrogen into helium.


Does fusion occur only under extremely high temperatures?

Nuclear fusion of light elements is the process operating in the stars to produce energy, and needs very high temperature to occur. Experiments on earth to aim at producing useful power from fusion have been progressing for many years. The reactants most likely to be used are isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium. These need to be heated to some hundreds of millions of degrees kelvin before reaction starts. Fusion reactions have been seen, but only for less than 1 second so far. Fusion is not a chemical reaction, it is a nuclear process.


Is it true that nuclear fusion's fuel needs to be readily available?

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What elements make up octane?

The elements in octane are simply carbon and hydrogen. There are eight carbons which are covalently bonded together in a line, and since the carbon has to fill its valence shell it has hydrogens attached to the free electrons. Carbon needs to bond to four elements to have a full valence shell.