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ProneMasturbationMan t1_iywfeqx wrote

Reply to comment by Englandd12 in Why not use hydrogen and deuterium in fusion reaction rather than tritium and deuterium? by Curious_user4445

>it has the highest specific reactivity at lower temperatures even when compared to DD, DH etc reactions

Why?

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RobusEtCeleritas t1_iyws6yx wrote

Lower Coulomb barrier, which means that the cross section begins to increase at lower energies, which means that the convolution of the cross section with a Maxwellian distribution function is higher at lower temperatures.

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