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How does fusion work if it requires antimatter to transform particles into energy?
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Nuclear fusion is a nuclear reaction where two or more atomic nuclei crash together at extremely high speed and join to form a new atomic nucleus. For instance, the Sun's intense pressure and temperature cause 620 million metric tonnes (680 imperial tons) to fuse together into helium.
Although antimatter can be used to initialize fusion, it is not a requirement. For instance, acoustic shock waves have been theorized to cause enough temperature and pressure to fuse nuclei together. High temperature is also used in a tabletop fusion device called a Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor.
As well, electrostatic confinement accelerates ions into a space causing them to fuse together in a device called a Polywell.
However, the typical ingredients to cause atomic nuclei to fuse together are temperature and pressure. See the related Wikipedia link below for more information on nuclear fusion.
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What are the advantages of using antimatter?
Currently antimatter is only used for scientific research as it is very expensive to obtain. In the future antimatter could be used for anything that requires energy such as producing electricity.
The temperature at which the particles of a substance have more kinetic energy to transform is?
The melting or the boiling point.
What is the relationship between energy and movement of particles in a substance?
Movement requires energy.
The movement of particles from a less crowded area to a more crowded area requires what?
It requires energy.
What is made when matter and antimatter collide?
They annihilate each other, releasing a relatively large quantity of energy, which can be calculated using the formula e=mc2, where e is the released energy in joules, m is the mass of the particles in kilograms, and c is the speed of light in metres per second
Is space and time antimatter?
There is no antimatter identified yet. Location in space and time are used as coordinates of an event. Matter is a form of energy. Sub-elementary particles (from which we know some of them) organize as elementary particles (electron, neutrino and protons). Further, elementary particles organize as atoms which gather in molecules or matter. Antimatter could be, if it exists, from a special kind of sub-elementary particles which we do not about yet.
What are the advantages of using antimatter?
Currently antimatter is only used for scientific research as it is very expensive to obtain. In the future antimatter could be used for anything that requires energy such as producing electricity.
Is energy made of the same particles as matter?
Energy has absolutely no volume or mass. However, energy and matter can be interchanged, and highly energetic particles behave as if they have more mass. When antimatter and matter collide, they annihilate, releasing their equivalent in energy. The "particles" of which energy can be said to be composed are "photons" which are discreet, massless packets of energy. The so-called "solar wind" is not energy, but consists of high-energy particles emitted by the Sun along with its radiated energy.
What does it mean when you say matter in a scientific way?
Sometimes it is in opposition to antimatter. In this sense matter is everything that is composed of atoms, electrons, protons, neutrons and other more exotic particles. But not their anti particles. It also doesn't include various things such as energy or gravity (though both matter and antimatter may carry energy, and have gravitational fields)
The temperature at which the particles of a substance have more kinetic energy to transform is?
The melting or the boiling point.
What is the relationship between energy and movement of particles in a substance?
Movement requires energy.
Why is still antimatter in the universe if it was defeated by the matter in the big bang?
Our current understanding says that matter-antimatter pairs can be produced by a sufficiently strong energy field, and further says that this is happening all the time. Normally these particles quickly meet up and annihilate each other, but under certain conditions this might not happen, which would leave free antimatter particles running around.
Does the universe contain antimatter?
Yes, the universe does contain antimatter, which does naturally occur, although in quantities much smaller than matter. The very slight bias of physical law in our universe towards towards matter instead of antimatter is a subject of ongoing research; some calculations indicate that for every hundred billion particles of antimatter created from the energy of the Big Bang there were roughly a hundred billion "plus one" particles of matter - the balance eventually annihilating each other during collisions, resulting in a universe almost entirely of normal matter. Regions of space currently rich in antimatter have been searched for without success to date. Very tiny amounts of light antimatter particles do exist in cosmic rays; radioactive materials can spontaneously produce antimatter particles when they decay; and it can be produced in particle accelerators.
What is the movement of small particles which requires energy?
active transport
What requires the movement of particles from a less crowded area to a more crowded area?
It requires energy.
The movement of particles from a less crowded area to a more crowded area requires what?
It requires energy.
What is made when matter and antimatter collide?
They annihilate each other, releasing a relatively large quantity of energy, which can be calculated using the formula e=mc2, where e is the released energy in joules, m is the mass of the particles in kilograms, and c is the speed of light in metres per second
