[Nuclear] Fusion converts a solid into a liquid. There is a change in state (solid, liquid, or gas), perhaps into compounds, but I have not heard about a single element creating a new element. You need to show your sources and be much more specific.
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They fail at Astrophysics. They fail at Biology. They fail at History. They fail at Social Science. They fail at Sex Ed. They fail at Economy.
And now, they fail at Nuclear Physics.
I beleive I've just lost all faith in humanity.
U235 + n = Kr92 + Ba141 + 3n
The chemical equation of fission, while I couldn't find the one for fusion, this is an example a single element creating (if that's what you want to call it) two new ones. If you need the equation in words in order to clarify it it's:
Uranium235 + neutron = Krypton92 + Barium 141 + 3 neutrons
well there you have my source, now where's yours?
"At such high temperatures, the chances of having tritium and helium in any other form but gaseous is nearly impossible."
Technically in the sun's core they are all plasma, not gases.
Our Sun converts Hydrogen to Helium. That is what gives the Sun its energy.
If you knew anything about astronomy, you would know that the inside of the oldest stars have a series of shells inside them, all different elements, up to and including iron.
Physics is not your subject, is it.
Go back to wikipedia, find the article on fusion again, and this time try reading the whole thing rather than just the first noun of each sentence. Once you've done that, check the disambiguation notes for "fusion". After you've looked at both nuclear fusion and thermodynamic fusion, also look up "phase change", "compound" and "element." In future discussions on this subject, cite all of the above at the very least - you need to show your sources and be much more specific.
Finally, after you've completed all of the above, go and hang yourself in unbearable intellectual shame.
Perhaps you should have listened when people told you not to drop out of school in the middle of second grade. Your scientific knowledge is less than zero: You know nothing, but what you think you know is false. Hence your knowledge is negative. This might sound radical, but try reading a REAL book sometime.
but I have not heard about a single element creating a new element.
Question: Where did the USA get more than 12 kilograms of plutonium for the Trinity test and the Fat Man atomic bomb in WW2?
Plutonium is found only in very faint traces (micrograms per 100 tonnes of uraninite). Where did this huge amount of the ELEMENT plutonium come from? Did they pray for it, and God miraculously provided it? What was the Hanford nuclear reactor for?
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